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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...dramatize his contempt, ordered a TV set covered in skunk fur. Now TV sets glitter within Romanoff's and during lunchtime in the executive dining rooms of major studios, where the executives claim they use TV for casting ideas. Jack Benny has seven sets. TV exerts such a spell on movie stars-especially when it happens to be showing their old films-that it has rendered the movie colony housebound. Says Columnist Sidney Skolsky: "The nightclub business is dead, and there is just no place left in town, day or night, where you can count on finding a gathering...
...chairman of the board. Old Board Chairman John M. Olin, 64, will become chairman of the Financial and Operating Policy Committee. Osborne attended Harvard ('26) and Harvard Business School, taught in Harvard's history department before joining Boston's Old Colony Corp. in 1928. After a spell with Atlantic Coast Fisheries Co., the Government during World War II and Eastern Air Lines, he became treasurer and later financial vice president of Mathieson Chemical. ¶Hans A. Vogelstein, 53, was named president of the American Metal Co., Ltd., U.S. refining and smelting concern with holdings in Canada, Mexico...
...writer who got an M.A. from Harvard in '29, a writer whose work is essentially didactic. To find a man whose primary purpose is not only to amuse but to educate, whose primary concern is not art but people, and who despite all that, can hold a reader spell-bound, this is enough to recommend any book...
Uncut hair, grubby hands and nails, an unctuous face and general disorder of appearance, along with the tattered clothing and an accompanying look of explosive distraction, or sometimes protracted introspection, build up to the effect aimed at--an appearance of depravity. Cantabrigians under the spell of Continentalism would join the desperate people in Sartre's stories and the creatures of Camus in their state of elevated wretchedness--a vilifying yet inexpensive estrangement that sets them off from their humdrum fellows. They have in their minds' eye the limbo of clandestine disbelief they think is occupied by post-war, or just...
...Wallace agreed to honor "your wish for a fancy unencumbered," sent sketches of the dream car to give the poetess inspiration. After looking at them, Miss Moore replied: "I am by no means sure that I can help you to the right thing, but performance with elegance casts a spell. Let me do some thinking in the direction of impeccable, symmechromatic, thunder-blender . . . (The exotics, if I can shape them a little.) Dearborn might come into one ... I thank you for realizing that under contract esprit could not flower. You owe me nothing, specific or moral...