Word: accounting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rise out of the ground wearing a 1958 suit and carrying a wet umbrella over his head. They would be wise to do away at once with this altogether too jarring bit of costuming. In the penultimate scene, they make Hiram Sherman, as Paulina's steward, treat his lengthy account of off-stage doings as though he were supposed to be burlesquing the Messenger of ancient Greek drama. This is a questionable interpretation, although admittedly it does get plenty of laughs...
...does represent Goldfine. The instance is that of the Rogers Hotel in Lebanon. Goldfine is the real owner of the Rogers. In 1943, Cotton negotiated the purchase of the hotel as a front for Client Goldfine, oversaw the title search and made the option payment from his personal bank account. Goldfine repaid Cotton for the option, but it was still necessary for Cotton to take final title to the hotel. As far as the public record is concerned, Cotton still holds the title, although he says he has filed with Goldfine a letter stating that he was Goldfine...
...visitors swarmed around the box office at every performance, trying to wangle one or two seats in the orchestra ($8.05)-or even a square foot of standing space ($3). The Music Man was the toughest ticket in town, even harder to snag than My Fair Lady, and, for expense-account buyers, worth the $50 scalpers' price...
Haniwa is an enigmatic art. The picturesque account given in the Nihon Shoki (chronicles of Japan compiled in the 8th century) credits Emperor Suinin (29 B.C.-A.D. 70) with substituting clay figures for the human retainers who customarily had been buried alive with their masters. Historians scuttled this colorful explanation by discovering that Haniwa figures were not made until centuries after inin's rule. Best bet is that the Haniwa figures, along with houses and boats, were meant to console the dead. Says Expert Fumio Miki: "We can only surmise from the data on hand that they were grave...
...thought they could always count on the U.S. Export-Import Bank for loans. Eventually, after 63 authorized loans totaling $656 million, Brazil had to go to the Monetary Fund. There a coolly competent professional international staff delivered a stern lecture, exacted a promise of reform, gave a small drawing account of $37.5 million in the hope that Brazil would go and sin no more. If Brazil had had to take this lecture from the U.S., the howl in Rio would have carried all the way to Washington. Said a foreign diplomat in Washington: "From the U.S. standpoint...