Word: content
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...directors must give him "the means of making this orchestra second to none." Since then, he has increased the orchestra's size from 82 to 96, and hired a score or so of musicians (among them Concertmaster Josef Gingold from Detroit) from other organizations. Today, Conductor Szell is content: the Cleveland personnel is "as good as any conductor could wish for." With a whopping $5,000,000 endowment and willing contributors to the annual deficit drive (this year: $110,000), the orchestra's economic position is also as secure as any in the world...
Brewer Miller did not intend to be content with that. In five years, spending $25 million on expansion, he had brought his High Life brew from 20th place to a position right behind Schlitz, Anheuser-Busch, Ballantine and Pabst. Last week President Miller announced that he is starting a second $20 million expansion. Said he: "Our goal is to be the largest producer of the best beer...
...playing at life: he wants to see his brother Ben before he dies. At the age of 80, he does. He finds Ben a wizened-up derelict dying in a Frisco flophouse. "I failed," Ase tells him. "You've done right, Ase," says Ben. Both brothers die content...
...good part of what he was hired to do, i.e., make Met productions a consistent pleasure to the eye as well as the ear. He has not been able to cure the Met's chronic deficits (last year's: about $475,000), but the directors are content. Last week, to nobody's surprise, they signed Bing up for another three years...
...offensive, objectionable or suggestive" material, of "poor taste" in advertising some products, and of placing "entirely too much emphasis on crime programs." However, the committee noted, "substantial improvements" have been made, e.g., the plunging necklines of women performers have been triced up. Other critics of TV were less content...