Word: slickers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Digest's fabulous growth, its editorial formula has not significantly changed since birth. To Digest editors, the magazine is an "invention" that can be refined, improved and expanded-not changed. But since it reflects the growing sophistication of its sources, the Digest is now a notably slicker product than the one founded in 1922, on 4,000 borrowed dollars, by a Minnesota minister's son with an infallible instinct for middlebrow tastes. More than anything else, though, the Reader's Digest is a monument to DeWitt Wallace's reading habits-multiplied 22 million times...
...Verdi marked only three slurs on the first page of the score; the printed versions have 43. Result:, a much quicker, slicker opening than Verdi intended...
...Danny Kaye has generously contributed his services for this extraordinary musical adventure," announced Berkshire Festival advertisements for the annual Boston Symphony Orchestra Pension Fund Concert. "The orchestra," it continued, "simply cannot accept any responsibility." When the old (48) Mitty-slicker appeared at Tanglewood (following a warmup children's concert with the Boston Pops back on the Charles the day before), he shook hands with his concertmaster and then with most of the rest of the 104 pieces, broke up the audience by portraying a maestro with a psychosomatic itch, employing a flyswatter baton for Flight of the Bumble...
Last week the coldly practical railroad experts of Europe, meeting in Leningrad, were agreed: the old Orient Express no longer paid its way, must therefore be eliminated. Now anyone who wanted to spend two days traveling to Istanbul would have to endure the slicker, upstart Simplon-Orient Express, which swings south through Switzerland into Italy and then on across Yugoslavia, delivering its passengers efficiently enough but without the luxury their grandfathers had known...
...Theater (CBS, 9-9:30 p.m.). Hugh O'Brian and Stella Stevens star as the city slicker and his backwoods belle in William Faulkner's "The Graduation Dress...