Word: arthur
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...Green Mountains, to Northampton. On the courthouse lawn there, John Coolidge will unveil a new gray granite bust of his father, the tardy fulfillment of a memorial first promised in 1934. The sculptor is Frank Gaylord II of Barre, Vt., whose pantheon includes William Penn, John Kennedy, Arthur Fiedler and Martin Luther King...
...invented Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's Leo the Lion trademark and is said to have coined Greta Garbo's line "I want to be alone," Dietz was amazingly prolific (more than 500 songs) and quick, whipping up That's Entertainment in 30 minutes with his longtime collaborator Arthur Schwartz. One of show business's genuine Renaissance men, Dietz translated the librettos of La Bohème and Die Fledermaus into English for the Metropolitan Opera, dabbled in oil painting, and devised a two-handed bridge game that bears his name...
Robert G. Arthur Kings Park...
...DIED. Arthur M. Wirtz, 82, hard-nosed real estate and sports magnate; of cancer; in Chicago. A policeman's son who made a Depression fortune by buying up bankrupt properties, Wirtz joined Grain Speculator James Norris to take control of Chicago Stadium in 1935, filling the arena with his own ice revues, his hockey Black Hawks and the basketball Bulls, of which he was part owner. The Wirtz-Norris interests gained such a stranglehold over boxing-promoting 90% of all championship bouts in the U.S. between 1949 and 1955-that a federal court ordered their International Boxing Clubs dissolved...
...Japanese have been known in the past for being able to turn their civilization on a dime. After 215 years of deliberate feudal isolation during the Tokugawa period, Japan threw itself open in 1854. It was, wrote Arthur Koestler, like breaking the window of a pressurized cabin: the Japanese crashed out into the world devouring everything that had been done or thought in the rest of the planet during their long encapsulation (the late Renaissance, the Enlightenment, the Industrial Revolution). Rarely has there been an ingestion of foreign influence so smoothly accomplished. The Japanese did something of the same thing...