Word: successful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...repertory. But at the same time it has cast him in a unique musical role. "He may be the first man in history," says a friend, "to be a Horowitz, Liberace and Presley all rolled into one." What some friends worry about is that in the easy flush of success Van might be tempted to keep on repeating himself in the showy, romantic repertory he handles so well, neglecting his powers to develop. Says Juilliard Dean Mark Schubart: "He needs to learn more Beethoven sonatas; he needs to work on Schubert, Schumann, Debussy and Ravel. This is no reflection...
Most of the people close to him agree with Critic Abram Chasins that, because his basic instincts are "those of a pristine musician," Van will survive the perils of his success. But U.S. music is unlikely ever to be the same again. "What he has given to it," says Pianist Eugene Istomin, "is glamour. He has reminded everybody that we are no longer a cowboy country musically...
...STOCK SAVINGS PLAN for salaried employees is proving a major success. More than 92,000, or 83%, of eligible employees have invested $104 million-half of it in G.M. stock, half in Government bonds. Company contributes 50? worth of stock for every $1 saved by employees. G.M. offered plan to its 350,000 hourly workers in 1955, but the U.A.W. rejected...
...Emory University, won a reputation as a topnotch troubleshooter, made his mark in Coke's hierarchy by putting some fizz into the Canadian subsidiary as its president. ¶Edgar A. Jones, 42, was named president of Greyhound's two-year-old Rent-A-Car subsidiary, whose success was largely responsible for a 7% increase in Greyhound's operating revenues (to $65,566,223) in 1958's first quarter. Erie-born Ed Jones, a bachelor, has been with Greyhound in several administrative capacities since 1936, was one of the chief movers in the formation and development...
...post as Busseto organist over violent opposition and married his childhood sweetheart, daughter of his patron. Their two children died in infancy, and wife Margherita followed them to the grave after only four years of marriage and just before her husband's first big success, the opera Nabucco...