Word: bit
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...Newhouse likes to be a bit off handed about his press purchases. Ex plaining that his son Donald, who is pub lisher of the Jersey Journal (circ. 93,998), also oversees Newhouse papers in Birmingham and Huntsville, Ala. and in Portland, Ore., Newhouse says of his Post deal: "Denver makes a nice stop on the way from Alabama to Portland." Be that as it may, Sam Newhouse picked up a slice of a famed newspaper...
Show Business, which moves among the dark marquees of Broadway, dark for the first time since the actors' strike of 41 years ago, where stars and bit-players alike are doing all their acting at union meetings...
...Charter Stretcher. Ex-Im's current president is Samuel Clark Waugh, 70, a Lincoln, Neb. banker who took over in 1955. Under Waugh, loans last year hit a record $535.9 million. Waugh has stretched his charter a bit to keep Ex-Im operations flexible. Sample: massive stabilization loans ($100 million to Mexico, $25 million to Chile) are not meant to be spent but to give a psychological lift to a currency threatened by inflation or devaluation. But further than that Waugh will not go, or even look. "I'm a lender, not a giver," he says...
...triumph last week was that she made her audience overlook the opera's gothic absurdities and focus on its moments of real beauty, including Elvira's pre-wedding aria, "Son vergin vezzosa," and her splendid "Qui la voce sua soave," which introduces a mad scene every bit as effective as the more famous one in Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor. Her voice was precise, agile, light-textured and luminous. The London Observer praised her "extraordinary beauty of tone,'' and the Daily Mail found in her performance an "almost intolerable poignancy...
Bonbon's Bang. In Green Bay, Wis., Housewife Peggy Wolf bit into what appeared to be a piece of candy, suffered a slight concussion when it turned out to be a firecracker...