Word: witnesses
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...GERRY MULLIGAN, 69, the premier baritone saxophonist and a leading composer-arranger of the past four decades; of complications from a knee infection; in Darien, Connecticut. Though he oversaw the birth of "cool" jazz with Miles Davis in 1947, Mulligan defied classification, playing and writing with a distinctive pulse, wit and imagination. He conceived the "pianoless quartet," which paired his horn with Chet Baker's trumpet over bass and drums...
While CEOs are no doubt preparing speeches about the relationship between risk and reward, a few statistics intrude. To wit: despite the gush of profits, stockholders didn't see a comparable leap in their dividends. And employees took home only 2.7% more in wages and benefits during the year, the lowest increase since the government began tracking compensation in '81. Though turn-of-the-century financier J.P. Morgan argued that a CEO should never make more than 20 times the average salary of a company's employees, the ratio has escalated radically in recent years. In a sample...
...teacher's neat casual suits or carefully parted white hair fool you. Students say Shattuck Professor of Irish Studies Tomas O Cathasaigh teaches the myths with energy and wit worthy of the Celtic heroes themselves...
...year later, Welles arrived in Hollywood with a fussy, je-suis-l'artiste beard and an RKO contract giving him total control over his films. To an industry in robust middle age, Welles was a pampered brat. They called him Little Orson Annie, the Christ Child. One local wit said, "There, but for the grace of God, goes...
...ornament and outrage of many a dinner table in Bel Air--and also at Hearst's San Simeon, where he was a favorite of Marion Davies, keeping her giggling as they went outside for a swig. A former New Yorker drama critic and a full-time gambler, drinker and wit, Mank was the missing link between Hearst and Welles. Befriending the new kid, he proposed they write a life of a newspaper tycoon...