Word: sticked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...famed Darius Milhaud at Mills College. Teacher Milhaud filled him with counterpoint and polytonality, fired him with the conviction that improvisation of jazz was as valid for him as the improvisation of toccatas and fugues was for Bach. "He told me," says Dave, "if I didn't stick to jazz, I'd be working out of my own field and not taking advantage of my American heritage." Searching Dave Brubeck found a goal: to show that jazz is music...
With Bunker at the stick, Martin was able to sell $6,000,000 worth of notes, convertible into common stock at $6 a share. Within three months, by selling more stock to Martin shareholders, Bunker was able to pay off $4.3 million of the notes. The rest were converted into stock. This year Martin paid off the last of its interest-bearing debt, and the stock rose...
...live up to his promises to rehabilitate the New York Central, Robert R. Young has chopped costs, closed down maintenance shops, and ruthlessly cut the payroll on his railroad. Result: a net profit of $1,100,000 for September. Last week Bob Young laid aside the stick in favor of the carrot. To the Central's $100,000-a-year President Alfred Perlman, Chairman Young offered a stock option deal. Under the ten-year deal, President Perlman will be able to buy 32,000 shares of Central stock at $19.87½ per share, 75? above the current market price...
...serenade what underrates and guests who stick around or who jam into Ivy, Cottage, Campus, and Tower, The Princetonian has contracted Billy Butterfield's band and singer Jane...
...scenery for both pieces is by Richard Kaplan. For Arcadia he showed imagination with a set of suggestive stick construction and stark blue-grey flats. The de Musset piece he tried to furnish with draperies and props that, supposed to be sumptuous, were merely shabby...