Word: arthur
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Israel Motion Picture Studios, Ltd. tried to explain. Nobody working on the picture was familiar with Onward, Christian Soldiers, they said, and in casting about for background music for the film's climactic military parade in Tel Aviv, they had hit on an RCA Victor recording by Arthur Fiedler of T. M. Carter's Boston Commandery March. What they did not know was that Composer Carter had used Onward, Christian Soldiers as his motif. The studio quickly pointed out that there are some Christian soldiers in the Israeli army (said one film maker: "We are a democratic country...
...such examples are amusing. Use of the mails for medical quackery, according to Postmaster General Arthur Summerfield, is at an alltime high. Millions fall for quackery because their own physicians' advice is undramatic, especially in fields such as cancer, where the physician cannot guarantee a cure. An estimated $500 million annually is spent by a duped public on misrepresented drugs or remedies sold door to door...
Dept. I.Q. In Sylvia, Kans., Arthur Learned married Alice Smart...
Ever since the late Charles M. Schwab took over Bethlehem Steel in 1905 and set about making it the nation's No. 2 steelmaker (after U.S. Steel), the company has prospered by paying the fattest executive bonuses of any U.S. corporation. Last year Bethlehem's President Arthur Homer received $100,000 in salary, plus $411,249 in bonus, making him the highest-paid U.S. corporate executive. For years many Bethlehem vice presidents have been paid more than presidents of larger companies. Last week Homer and the 19 other Bethlehem executives who share in the company's lush...
...Sleepwalkers, by Arthur Koestler. The author, who formerly concentrated on an agonized view of political epicycles, discusses cosmology from Ptolemy to Newton...