1921
In Advice to a Young Tradesman, Benjamin Franklin observed, "Time is money." Francis Bacon: "Time is the greatest innovator." Robert Browning: "What's time? Leave Now for dogs and apes: Man has forever." Forever Jack Hubbell is in the money with Time magazine, and Time and Jack are great innovators. As executive director of retail services for Time, Jack is playing a leading role in a new spot market sales program offering businessmen opportunities to advertise in any combination of 127 metropolitan areas in the United States. He is providing marketers with maximum flexibility to reinforce national sales campaigns, tailor advertising areas of maximum impact, and test-market new products and new marketing strategies.
Her most dramatic hour rang in 1945 when she played Lady Macbeth; her funniest, StrangeBedfellow; her most rewarding, Madwoman ofChaillot. Where? Kalamazoo. Who? Louise Carver. Who looked more in The Patriots like George Washington than Washington himself? Who was so convincing a villain that a playgoer shook his fist at him and blurted forth a scatalogical four-letter word? Norman Carver. For 39 years he, as business manager, ran the $300,000 auditorium (now worth $3 million) and sponsored theatrical performances and symphony concerts. His talents ranged from engineer to actor, from emergency maintenance man to custodian, from engagement manager for concerts to wedding banquets and company parties. The Carvers are saluted as the Barrymores of the community theatre. Membership has grown from 450 to 5,000. The seasonal attendance for eight shows betters 40,000. Louise moved on to TV with her daily show, "Feminine Fancies," and she has interviewed thousands of persons on more than 3,000 shows touching not only on theatre but also on education, politics, marketing, and homemaking.
In South America for Hearst publications Harry Chamberlaine, who knows only a smattering of Spanish, recalls a boner he made at a formal dinner party. Adopting a Castilian accent he commented to a pretty woman about the weather. Her feelings might be muy caliente ("very passionate"), but a South American man would have described the weather as muy cálido ("very warm") or, more formally, que tienecierto grado de calor ("it is surely a bit warm.") In retirement Harry might be thought to be run ragged with the Alumni Fund. But no. In Rye he devotes himself several times a week to more than 100 handicapped persons as young as 16 and as old as 60. As president of the organization, he does not hide away in a plush office. Rather, he joins them in all kinds of activities, one of them remedial swimming, mighty good for the handicapped and mighty good for weight-watcher Harry to keep him flat, front center.
When John Woodhouse seeks relaxation in Arizona, the "environmental" laboratory of Arizona moves in on him. "Give us," they implore, "information about the college of Marine Studies." He must recall offhand what he advised the College five years ago about solar energy speeding up marine life. What can he say to lawyers in Washington pumping him about details of a 1934 patent about materials used in contact lenses? Oil companies badger him about his experiments from 1931 to 1933 about alcohol as a possible energy substitute for gasoline. That was a period in which during some dozen years he got about 70 patents.
When it comes to making history, Bob Loeb says yes to Boston once in a while but always no to New York. Back from his cruise, he still heads, however, for oceans with Mahan's Influence of Seapower upon History and for lakes with Lecky's History of Ireland in the 18 thCentury. Ponds too figure in Loeb history. Looking down from his Norwich hill last winter, he failed to sight his favorite moose and contented himself almost every morning with five deer around his pond eating his apples. The Big Apple, short on moose and deer, looks down on little apples.
In Aigre, France, natives took pleasure in showing spirited French horses to Chuck andMonette Moreau. The villagers remembered the village girl riding horseback through country lanes, careening over jumps in regional horse shows, and riding to the hounds with country gentry. How she loved every canter and gallop! During the war she was forced to deny herself such felicity, for German officers, quartered in her father's house, wanted to ride out with her. She was forced to say non and nein with Gallic firmness, for if he had said oui and ja she would have been condemned as a collaborationist.
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