Word: dell
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...added: "The people of Mississippi can only expect to be skinned by these companies." Last week a grand jury at Pascagoula handed in another critical report. Most of the controversy centers around Commission Member Erskine Wells, a lawyer whose firm represents many insurance firms, and State Insurance Commissioner Walter Dell Davis, an ex-officio member of the commission, who has been accused of being too cozy with insurers. In the wake of the storm, the commission hastily approved a 50% rate increase along the Gulf. Last week public outcry and political pressure prompted the commission to postpone the rate rise...
...campaign featuring photographs of the heroine's conquests, each posed for by one of the authors. ("Meet Melvin Corby" reads the blurb next to Aronson's picture, "faithful, frustrated, he canceled his men's magazines when Naked Came the Stranger.") Paperback rights have been sold to Dell for a $37,500 minimum (escalating to a possible $127,500 depending on hard-cover sales), and Stuart reports no fewer than 23 producers and directors interested in the film rights...
Shifting Coalition. To see how this came about, it is necessary to pause and contemplate the plot as it has unfolded over the years. It is a commedia dell' arte script with occasional touches of Machiavelli...
Some men bid for immortality with a simple statue or park bench that bears their name, or by endowing a university chair or a foundation. Not George T. Delacorte. The 76-year-old founder of the Dell Publishing Co. seeks to perpetuate his memory in a more spectacular way: through a series of monuments, each splashier than the last. The splashiest to date is the Delacorte Geyser at the tip of Manhattan's Welfare Island, which was tested last week for the first time...
ADAPTATION-NEXT are two one-acters directed by Satirist Elaine May. Adaptation, Miss May's own play, is cleverly staged like a TV contest, with Gabriel Dell playing the adaptation game from birth to death. James Coco gives an enormously resourceful performance as a middle-aged man undergoing a humiliating induction examination in Terrence McNally's Next...