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Besides the special summer setups, the year-round institutions were also going full blast: 363 students at the University of Rochester's Eastman School of Music, 400 at Manhattan's Juilliard, 1,300 at the University of Wisconsin's School of Music. Crowed Teacher Lotte Lehmann (in Santa Barbara's Music Academy of the West): "What has Salzburg got that we haven...
TIME'S circulation procedures were first mechanized in 1946, when the number of subscriptions started out growing the original manual operation. But 540 keeps a year-round staff of more than 1,000 people to do what the machines cannot. All inquiries, plaudits and complaints are checked and answered personally, although one mistrusting man several years ago fastened his letter to a large shingle, said: "Now try and file this...
...Over the years, more than 40,000 people, two-thirds of them U.S. citizens, took the Cuernavaca cure, bringing the state government an average $30,000 a year in fees, and enriching several local lawyers. If the divorcing spouse got in touch with the right lawyer, it was not even necessary to show up in Cuernavaca. Most divorce seekers, however, gladly made the trip. With its lush gardens, colonial buildings, year-round swimming pools and air-conditioned cocktail lounges, Cuernavaca is an agreeable place to spend a few days. Among the divorce-bound visitors: Heiress Barbara Hutton, Actress Myrna...
...cost housing project is rising in Dallas, in which each house is equipped with year-round air conditioning. It is the latest evidence that the young home-air-conditioning industry is rapidly growing up. In the past five years its sales have skyrocketed from $19 million to $91 million, and the 18 companies that make home air conditioning hopefully think of themselves as the "Cinderella industry...
...does 20% of all U.S. slipcover business). Sears volunteered to purchase raw materials for the supplier and store them, charging him only as he needed the materials. Later, Sears helped the manufacturer find a new plant in a small town and recruit a work force of 75, laid out year-round production schedules for him, and gave him a five-year-purchase contract which was enough to get him a bank loan to finance the new plant. Sears profits by such deals by getting low-cost goods made to its own specifications at bottom prices...