Word: 20s
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Native New Yorker Van Voorhis-his family goes back to the Dutch settlers-was a U.S. Naval Academy midshipman in the early '20s when his grandmother left him $100,000. Van quit the academy and went off to tour the world in the grandest manner possible. A year and a half later, he checked into a New York hotel with little but a full-dress suit to his name...
Elsewhere in the series. Concerto for Piano-Four Hands, by Philadelphia's Teacher-Composer Vincent Persichetti, starts off in a tortured, plodding style, goes on to crank out some astonishing, dervish-like activity. Lilacs and Portals, by one of the "bad boys" of the '20s, Carl Ruggles (played by the Juilliard String Orchestra), are handsome but dated experiments in sound combinations. Since Columbia can hardly expect to show a profit on this series anyway, it seems a shame it does not grit its worthy teeth and bring out at least a few samples of really controversial music...
Brooklyn teams have always had a special genius for blowing ball games in a thousand different ways. Brooklyn ball fans grew up with the Daffiness Boys and their bonehead base running of the '20s. They remember a rooter who turned murderer with rage over a loss to the Giants, a minister praying vainly for victory (1946-the Cardinals won the pennant) on the steps of Borough Hall, Catcher Mickey Owen dropping a third strike and losing a championship. With the inevitability of Greek tragedy, the beloved Bums were often contenders, sometimes won pennants and never won a World Series...
...Tiffany heirs know that times have changed. The 20% excise tax on luxury goods hurt sales and profits, which were as high as $3 a share in the '20s, dropped to 11? a share in 1952. However, sales are on the upgrade again and during 1955's first six months, Moore reported a 25% gain over the same period a year...
Even before the turbulent '20s, when the oil interests of the Middle East were being shuffled through a maze of complex reorganizations, Gulbenkian's talent for cutting himself in on virtually every deal earned him the sobriquet "Mr. 5%." Meanwhile, the profits he reaped were plowed into scores of other financial interests and one of the finest and most diffuse art collections in the world...