Word: romneys
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...English Portraitists: Gainsborough. Reynolds and Romney are returning to favor, though nowhere near the inflated level to which Lord Duveen, the famed Seeing Eye dealer for U.S. millionaires, pushed them during the boom of the 1920s. Then, wealthy Easterners (e.g., Andrew Mellon, Jules Bache) bought them; now, Texas oilmen do. The wide-ranging oilmen, one happy dealer explained last week, "prefer to buy their English pictures in England...
Most automen had guessed that the U.A.W. would go easy on American. American President George Romney expressed the same hope before a Senate committee investigating competition in the auto industry. He pointed out that American is already paying higher wages than the Big Three, and its books are just beginning to show a profit (v. a $654,390 loss in 1955's first quarter). But last week the U.A.W. made it clear that the independents must follow the Ford-General Motors pattern. Said Leonard Woodcock, U.A.W. vice president and Reuther's chieftain for American Motors: American...
...while still a fuzzless youth, Morland started drinking. To keep himself supplied with gin, young Morland secretly painted sexy love scenes, lowered them on a string to a confederate to be sold for gin money. Before his apprenticeship ended, Morland turned down a handsome offer from the painter Romney, set off on a roistering, rakehell career that sent him to his grave...
Whether or not director Romney Brent can sharpen up the horse's technique for future performances, One Eye Closed is really miserable comedy. Of course, it may be a cleverly concealed allegory and not a comedy at all. In that case, it is also miserable allegory. The actors are completely lost in the script, and can make no more of it than can the audience. But it really isn't their fault. Mr. Sturm thought it would be killing to have a bunch of men pretend they are drunk, another man pretend he is a dangerous criminal, and a woman...
...George Romney, 47, moved up from executive vice president of American Motors Corp. to president, succeeding the late George W. Mason (TIME, Oct. 18). Though Mason had been interested in a possible merger with Studebaker-Packard, one of Romney's first acts was to announce that "there are no mergers under way either directly or indirectly." The son of an old Mormon family and still a Mormon church reader, Romney earned his first money at eleven, harvesting sugar. He worked his way through Salt Lake City's Latter-day Saints' College, did the traditional Mormon missionary stint...