Word: santas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...last week, after a night of tossing and turning, California Industrialist Arthur Hanisch, 63, gave up his vain effort to sleep. "You'd better go back to bed, Arthur," said his wife, "Santa Claus isn't here yet." Hanisch was, indeed, like a boy waiting to see a new toy. Twenty-nine months ago he set out to build a dream palace for his small (140 employees), 17-year-old pharmaceutical business, the Stuart Co. He hired Manhattan Architect Edward D. Stone after seeing a picture of Stone's highly praised design for the New Delhi embassy...
CHARLES OVERILL Santa Ana. Calif...
...Goodbye. Back home in Santa Barbara, Calif., Lotte Lehmann coaches only a few singers ("just to keep it up") during the winter months. But in summer she is active as both teacher and opera producer at Santa Barbara's Music Academy of the West. She also spends a lot of time painting and making glass mosaics of her own design. Next fall Lotte Lehmann may go to Australia to repeat her teaching series...
...north side of the property, along bustling Santa Monica Boulevard, will rise seven air-conditioned office buildings (including one of 30 stories-far taller than anything now standing in Los Angeles-and three of 22 stories). Near them will spring up an 1 8-story, 1,000-room hotel, a six-story motion-picture arts center with adjoining 4,000-seat auditorium, a series of shops and department stores. Cutting a swath through the whole development will be a 175-ft.-wide concourse almost a mile long, with a centerway of statuary, fountains and subtropical plants...
...because it gives the executive a chance to gain a broader perspective by throwing him together with men from many and varied fields (both the Bank of America and Forest Lawn cemetery send their executives to California colleges). Says Dr. Joseph Trickett, professor of management at the University of Santa Clara, and onetime executive: "When you take a man whose work has made him provincial and send him off to Harvard, he sees other men from the entire country with the same problems he faces. It makes him read more, think more, be more savvy...