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...Chicago, Andy Frain Services, a supplier of ushers and ticket takers for concert halls and sports arenas like Comiskey Park, is faced with new recruiting headaches. Says Operations Director James Wronski: "The bonus of * seeing a ball game or hearing a concert used to be enough to attract the workers we needed. We used to sign up half the kids we solicited for jobs. Now it's below...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Maddening Labor Mismatch | 4/28/1986 | See Source »

Finally, the Central Committee also endorsed a minor shake-up in the ruling Politburo. Out went the ineffectual former Premier, Jozef Pinkowski. In came two workers, Gerard Gabrys, a miner, and Zygmunt Wronski, a molder at the Ursus tractor factory. Their inclusion in the party's supreme body, said Kania, was "the first step toward extending the representation of workers from the provinces into the Politburo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Poland: Opting Boldly for Renewal | 5/11/1981 | See Source »

Climate of Trust. In contrast to past congresses, government spokesmen went out of their way to be conciliatory. Zbigniew Zaluski, a leading conservative in the union, appealed for "a climate of trust between writers and the government." The new Minister of Culture, Stanislaw Wronski, promised to improve the material conditions of writers, whose wages and royalties have not been increased since...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLAND: Realistic Compromise | 2/21/1972 | See Source »

...Detroiters applauded indiscriminately for Raisa, Jagel, Ghione, raised the loudest tumult when Ghione made for the wings, led out Thaddeus Wronski, the stalky, middle-aged Polish basso who has long fathered the cause of opera in Detroit. Wronski made his first attempt as a producer in 1923 with an outdoor Aïda in the University Stadium. That night it was so hot that the grease paint streamed down the singers' faces. When the performance was about to begin a wind squall broke, blew down the Egyptian temple which was supposed to serve as the first-act scenery. Faithful...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Dybbuk in Detroit | 5/18/1936 | See Source »

...subsequent performances Impresario Wronski has drilled choruses, directed orchestras, helped build scenery, scoffed at scoffers until now he can command a substantial backing from the citizens of Detroit. Last week he was so excited that he almost swallowed his cigar backstage. After Detroit he took The Dybbuk to Chicago, scheduled it for five performances this week in Manhattan's Carnegie Hall...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Dybbuk in Detroit | 5/18/1936 | See Source »

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