Word: turning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...this way: George S. Kaufmann was a truly witty man but he let his wit turn into wise-crack; and his successors, who are generally less witty, are even more fond of wisecracking, and these are the men who are setting the pace today. But this is enough on the theater...
...Jimson lives in a houseboat moored in a London harbor, and continues painting on a weekly dole from his old, unbelievably frail patron. His epic visions, to be painted on the walls of living rooms, in the naves of churches, on the sides of ships never turn out exactly as he would like, yet he is incontrovertibly one of the great painters of the age. If no one else knows it, he does, and he is content to wait...
...They will also be much lighter. Wide use of aluminum, coupled with a redesigning of thousands of individual parts from bolts to caps, will cut the overall weight to around 2,500 Ibs., almost one-third less than the weights of the 1959 Ford, Chevy and Plymouth. This in turn will mean up to 25 miles per gallon of gas, an economy factor that will get more important as gasoline taxes go up. Yet the cars will not be minimum, European-style transportation. They will include U.S. features such as wrap-around windshields, offer most of the optional equipment...
...taken time for Hasselhorn's team to turn its brainpower into profits, but research is paying off. Last week Hasselhorn announced that earnings for the first six months of fiscal '59 were $706,823 on sales of $18.3 million, up 567%. With a backlog of more than $20 million, he expects fiscal '59 sales of $36 million, earnings of more than $1.5 million...
...reforms the church and the world, and dies a martyr. In The Desire and Pursuit of the Whole, Rolfe told the truth, little less fantastic, about his years as a sort of gondola bum in Venice. Nicholas Crabbe concerns Rolfe as a pitiful but unpitying literary hack in turn-of-the-century London -badgered, betrayed and swindled by a gallery of grotesque clowns called publishers and editors. The spite of this novel is now 50 years old, but time has been no deodorant...