Word: supportive
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Stan Musial originally dreamed of being a Pirate. Unfortunately for Pittsburgh, the Pirates never dreamed of Stan Musial until it was too late. Stan was born in Donora, Pa. (about 25 miles southeast of Pittsburgh), where his father, Lukasz Musial, a Polish immigrant, worked at the zinc mill to support a wife and six kids...
...some three years, the Detroit Symphony Orchestra had been groaning under the ills of insurrection in the ranks, irregular support from the public, the musical tastes of Conductor Karl Krueger and the uncompromising management of Board President Henry H. ("I like this way") Reichhold (TIME, Feb. 14). Last week it looked as if the ills might prove fatal, though not before President Reichhold, the symphony's chief supporter, had delivered himself of remarks at the deathbed...
Industrialist Reichhold (Reichhold Chemicals, Inc.) added that it was "a shocking disgrace and all Detroit should be ashamed . . . Apparently if I don't support the musicians singlehanded, Detroiters don't care enough about their orchestra to make a move. I think Detroiters . . . are just sitting back waiting for me to underwrite the symphony by myself for the seventh season. But even if I could, I wouldn...
...week's end, most Detroiters were still sitting back. Symphony critics, who thought that sufficient support could still be found if autocratic President Reichhold stepped out of the top job, were waiting for him to make the next move...
...skilled workers 7? an hour. On the highlands, hungry Indians scratched the barren slopes for corn, still trying to live by what they remembered of the dignified old tribal customs. And ruling the country was Dictator Ronca, a strutting, streamlined Latin American demagogue who had won the peasants' support by promising them land, only to suppress them as soon as he got to power...