Word: awaying
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...give a darn about money," says Impresario Farrell, grandson of Util-itycoon ($85 million) Anthony Nicholas Brady. "There's no sense making a lot of it. You just have to give it away in taxes." But promoters and crackpots who have set snares for some of Tony Farrell's ready cash have misjudged him: "I'm not a soft touch. These guys around here think I am, but I know what the heck I'm doing...
...Surpassing Texas Oilman Edgar B. Davis, who, some 20 years ago, poured $1,500,000 into a dismal play called The Ladder (789 performances) until he ended up giving all tickets away. Not comparable are Abie's Irish Rose (2,327 performances) and Tobacco Road (3,182 performances); both defied the critics with their lengthy runs-but eager customers put up the money...
...bitterly hard. To begin with, the original $150,000 fund-raising campaign had fallen short by $60,000. Tuitions ($400 a year) failed to bridge the gap. Then the trustees asked the Rutland city council for help. That involved a referendum, but last week it was still a month away, and Rutland's 16-member faculty had not been paid since mid-March. Facing these facts, President Benjamin B. Warfield, a 44-year-old Navy veteran, went to the college books for figures. The college needed at least $10,000 to tide it over until the referendum...
Last week, the University of Minnesota's Dr. Willem Jacob Luyten announced that he had discovered a double star which is only about six light years (35 trillion miles) away from the solar system. It is thus the nearest known star that can be seen regularly in the Northern Hemisphere. (The nearest of all stars, Alpha Centauri and Proxima Centauri, are 4.3 light years away, but are usually visible only.in the Southern Hemisphere...
...system which, though tiny in size, enables them to remember, to learn, and to show individuality." Several were trained to eat a drop of honey from his hand. One let him stroke her while she ate. She became so fond of him that Dr. Shafer had difficulty keeping her away from an alcohol lamp with which he was working in the lab. Twice he had to put her out of the room. After the first expulsion, he reports solemnly, she sulked at him for a week. After the second, she would have nothing to do with him-until three weeks...