Word: youngstowners
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...steel industry is not competitive economically with the Soviet steel industry. We have yet to learn this the hard way, but one day we shall." So last week said Alfred S. Glossbrenner, president of Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co., sixth biggest U.S. steelmaker...
...kept a discarded microphone in the attic at home. It was hooked up to nothing, but he sat before it by the hour, reading aloud from plays, books, magazines. At 18 he left home and began to bounce around the country on his own, handling microphones in Indianapolis, Youngstown. Cleveland. Pittsburgh, Buffalo. He was married by then, for the second time to the same girl, and for the second time the marriage was breaking up. ("The first time we were divorced it was my fault. The second time it was her fault. When we felt that we were even...
...first-prize winner in oils was a hot orange-and-red living-room interior by Gregorio Prestopino (TIME, Jan. 26, 1948). It seemed to suit the factory workers, ladies' clubbers and art fanciers of Youngstown (pop. 180,000); so many came on opening night that the rum for the punch bowl ran out. The painting and the other winners also pleased Joseph Green Butler III, the institute's greying, quiet, 57-year-old director...
...after he graduated from Dartmouth, Joe Butler III followed his steel-baron grandfather and his father Henry A. Butler into management work at the Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. Later he worked for a while in the family brokerage firm. But when his father died, Joe took on museum directing as well as brokering. It was too much. Forced to decide between them, he chose to be director of the Butler Institute of American...
...Butler III has made it his six-day-a-week job to increase the institute's indispensability to Youngstown. He stepped up buying for the collection, launched the midsummer annual. One early move was to rescind his grandfather's rule of no smoking in the galleries, thus bring back the Buckeye Club, a group of Sunday painters who now meet regularly at the institute to criticize one another's paintings. Last year more than 40,000 Youngstowners crossed the threshold, and Butler feels that his museum is booming. Of this year's exhibition he says with...