Word: tailor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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With all this competition ahead, pioneering TWA is thinking of offering half-hour movies on its shorter-distance flights. Hollywood has clearly invaded the heavens; its problem now is to tailor its products to flying times...
...TAILOR AND ANSTY by Eric Cross. 223 pages. Devin-Adair...
...tailor of the title, an old man living in the mountains bordering Cork and Kerry, was a local oracle who could sit by the hour streeling out Irish tales and songs. Anastasia, his "bitter half," was his chorus. When Eric Cross, an Irish short-story writer, first published The Tailor and Ansty in 1942, they were already something of a legend. Cross tells the stories and the occasional songs as he heard them. They are about talking cats; about the adventures of the "cabogues," itinerant laborers who used to help the farmers dig spuds in the autumn; about weddings...
Sure enough, Farmer Cutler showed newsmen three tailor-made suits that Lyndon had sent him. "They makes me feel just like I'm a Senator myself," he chuckled...
Scoring Strikes. Frank Gordon, a G.I. who stayed on in Germany to work for Radio Free Europe, began looking for his own business in 1957. "My idea was that America was 15 years ahead of Germany, and all I had to do was to find an American idea and tailor it to fit the German mentality." Result: he and Partner Leo Horrigan settled upon their own Musik fur Millionen, which pipes soothing background music into offices, bars, hotels and stores in six German cities. Three young Americans-Cecil Altmann, Robert S. Mackay, and John F. Herming-haus-pooled their savings...