Word: townes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...monkey-fur jacket and top-heavy hats, her pince-nez perched precariously on her thin nose, Impresario "Cissy" Schultz has long been as much a part of Seattle's musical scene as the musicians. For the past 25 years, she has run nearly everything musical in town except the symphony. Last summer when even that finally fell her way, one board member raged: "She always has wanted to get her clutches on the orchestra." Cissy rasped, in a voice sometimes compared to the sound of tearing canvas: "These big-business tycoons are just little boys when it comes...
Last week Parton thought his experiment had worked well enough to expand further. For less than $500,000, he bought the biggest U.S. giveaway-Los Angeles' twice-a-week Down Town Shopping News† (circ. 500,000). The Shopping News was owned by 18 Los Angeles department stores (The Broadway, Bullock's, May Co., Barker Bros.). Parton promised to jump circulation to 600,000 and lower ad rates; as part of the deal, the stores signed long-time advertising contracts with Parton. His expected revenue this year: more than...
...part of the Parton deal, the Down Town Shopping News Corp. sold its stock in Pacific Press. (Pacific Press, largest West Coast printing plant, prints the Shopping News, and the West Coast copies of TIME and LIFE.) TIME Inc. bought the preferred stock; the Clement Co., Buffalo printers, bought the common stock...
...highway near Olivet, Mich., a tiny (pop. 800) town where nearly everyone votes Republican and goes to the Congregational Church, there stands a welcoming sign: "Olivet, a village of friendly folk, home of Olivet College . . ." Last week, friendship was on trial in Olivet and in the coed college on the hill...
Cole knew the wilderness well. His father was an Englishman who opened a wallpaper shop in the frontier town of Steubenville, Ohio, in 1820. An itinerant portraitist dropped in one day, kindly taught young Cole how to make paint brushes from pig bristles. Soon the boy was wandering from town to town, painting portraits. He lugged along a saddle he had accepted in payment for one job, but he had no horse. Resting on his saddle, in the forest between settlements, he learned to know landscape, and his landscapes later made a hit. In five years he had a Manhattan...