Word: sterne
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...TWENTIETH CENTURY (CBS, 6-6:30 p.m.). "Man with a Violin: Isaac Stern...
...Mames, comes from the deliberate absence of panache and patina. But most of the musical's appeal is purely emotional. The artless show matches the naive Quixote, a man who is only truly alive when he dreams; it extols virtues such as honesty and courage with a stern innocence that makes people believe in them. There are only 19 actors in the musical and no chorus line, but there is a persistent illusion of greatness and profundity about it all. And in the theater, it is illusion that people pay-and pay well...
...company owes much of its unique character-as well as its profits-to Kresge's farm-bred frugality and his stern Methodist morality. He once donated $500,000 to the Anti-Saloon League, said that "I never gave a dime to any church the pastor of which uses tobacco." Kresge men and women, mindful of old S. S. dictums, still eat separately in company cafeterias, habitually snap off lights when leaving washrooms-although managers complain that switches are wearing out. Yet when President Cunningham in 1961 urged that the chain fight discounters by opening its own discount "K-Marts...
Duty to Enjoy. He was born in Edinburgh, the first son of a stern Scots jurist and a mother who spoiled her little Jamie to make up for his father's puritanical severity. At 17, while studying in Edinburgh, he fell platonically in love with an older woman who was Catholic, and when his father precautiously transferred him to the University of Glasgow, Boswell ran off to London, intending to be converted and take holy orders. Before taking orders, he took a girl named Sally Forrester, whose charms persuaded him of his "duty to enjoy" a secular life...
Daisy Frances Hilse, 20, a cheerful, brown-eyed brunette, did not systemati cally set out to score top grades when she entered New York City's scholastically stern Hunter College. "I just hap pened to like all my subjects," she says. She liked them enough so that the A's-44 of them in all - just kept piling up. Last week Daisy became the first grad uate in Hunter history to score a perfect 4.0 rating through all four years...