Word: starting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Besides increasing the Waggoner empire's profits, General Manager Anderson succeeded over the years in transforming its local image from stone-hearted colossus to soft-hearted rich uncle. In Vernon, Texas, where his office was, Anderson headed fund-raising drives, got each drive off to a fast start by contributing a chunk of Waggoner funds. With Anderson's help, Vernon got a $1,000,000 Methodist church, a municipal auditorium, a recreation hall for teenagers, a Boy Scout camp...
...bagel-bald producer-director who has a reputation for outbidding everyone for film rights to bestsellers. Last week Preminger and Drury got together on a deal likely to make cash registers jingle for a long while. Happily counting the returns from his Anatomy of a Murder and preparing to start shooting on Exodus, Preminger bought the rights to Drury's Advise and Consent, which has led the bestseller list for nine weeks...
...conductor adamantly: "Yes." And at that point, reports the Boston Symphony's First Cellist Sammy Mayes, Russia's Dmitry Kabalevsky simply "took off." Composer Kabalevsky was conducting his own cello concerto in Boston, and "he wanted it a lot faster than we usually play it. You start flying around like a young gazelle...
...Start to Think. Sitting pretty in southern Maine, Colby has attracted money because Bixler has given the campus intellectual tone. Along with boosting the curriculum, notably in philosophy and religion, he launched art and music departments. He fostered a "creative thinking" course, spurring students to take off on any subject from cider to Columbus. He stirred the school to start a scholarly magazine, to ponder a "book of the year," e.g., The Lonely Crowd; Science, Magic and Religion. He got Colby to give TV courses for credit to rural viewers, made the school a summer center for adult education...
...good painter than president of General Motors.'' Slowly, out of the gloom in Florsheim's studio, more positive and colorful pictures began emerging. "I don't think most artists go through a blinding transformation; it's like a shingled roof with no start and no finish," he explains. "But I've gone farther in the past few years when it comes to communicating what is going on around us. The artist is an interpreter after all; he's building the culture just as other people build buildings. He's communicating emotion-half...