Word: sevens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...After seven weeks of marriage, Tyrone Power flew into London with his bride, former Starlet Linda Christian, who was quoted as burbling that the honeymoon was "just a dream" and that she was "just longing for a baby so I can call him Tyrone...
...their home in Erie, Pa. they bought a phonograph and taught sons Peter and Lewis (Lewis is now 28 and a composer-teacher at the University of Texas) to listen to records. Says Peter: "Sounds corny, but I always liked Beethoven." He was set to studying sight-reading at seven, could read music before he could play an instrument, still plays "terrible piano." At 17, he went to Ohio's Oberlin Conservatory, then after a spell in the Air Force, took his degrees (including a Ph.D.) at Rochester's Eastman School of Music...
...Slick Flop. He had come, it seemed, to an art style of his own after a good many years of following other people's. "At seven," he says, "I was definitely modernistic in outlook. My first painting was rather like a fumbling Matisse." He grew up to paint slick surrealist canvases. When he showed 30 of them in Dublin three years ago, he sold only two or three; when he hauled out more than 100 in his own Belfast, not a one was sold. Middleton supported his wife and three children by working as a damask designer...
...shall be remembered," Chauncey Tinker once remarked with a wave of his hand, "for my students. These are my jewels." Last week, four years after his retirement from teaching, old (72) Professor Tinker knew just how rich in jewels he was. Thirty-seven of them, who had gone on to become professors themselves, had written a book in his honor and handed it to him at a dinner. Appropriately, the book was a collection of their own scholarly essays on Tinker's Century. The title, affectionately lifted from Tink's old course, was The Age of Johnson (Yale...
...sales volume. "Thus, the Greenwood Book Shop in Wilmington speaks with the same power as Marshall Field in Chicago, largest book outlet in the Midwest . . ." It cited Harcourt, Brace & Co., which had checked the actual publishers' figures of other bestsellers against the sales this year of its The Seven Storey Mountain, which was in eleventh place in the Times nonfiction list. Said Harcourt a month ago, in an ad in the Times: Mountain is actually leading the list. If any publisher could show better sales on a "list" book, "we will buy this space...