Word: bers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Riches in Failure. Ber enson earned every one of his pleasures and treasures, has bequeathed his villa with its library and collection to Harvard as a center for Italian art studies. The son of Lithuanian Jewish immigrants to Boston, he got his education (Boston University and Harvard) on scholarships, was sponsored by Boston's Mrs. Jack Gardner, whose collection he largely formed. Before the turn of the century he had made his fame as an art expert when he audaciously announced that about 75% of the Renaissance paintings in a major exhibition in London were either copies or attributed...
Wherever the analysts went, they left a wake of rising stocks. Almost all the companies visited rose as U.S. and European investors anticipated the analysts' reports. Britain's Edwards High Vacuum climbed 58% with the visit, and Germany's Siemens & Halske went up 5 points just ber fore the visitors went rubbernecking through a Siemens plant...
...time not arrived to reach for a larger settlement with the Russians about Germany's future status? "Ja, fine," said the old man, "we can discuss reunification at the same time." Adenauer had not changed: with him it was still reunification über alles. Next day Adenauer admonished the "flexibles" among his own party's Bundestag Deputies to stand "absolutely firm" with the West against wider negotiations over Berlin...
...Harold Macmillan and his Cabinet and Britain's military service chiefs were waiting, with smiles and handshakes, on a red carpet in London's grimy Victoria Station. Artillery in Hyde Park thundered in salute. The scarlet-coated band of the Scots Guards even broke into Deutschland über Alles. Headlined London's tabloid Daily Sketch: O.K., FRITZ, YOU'RE OUT OF THE DOGHOUSE...
...indiscriminate listener with brass ears, plenty of time on his hands and a normal yen for sleep, could sit down ber fore his hi-fi set and work through the whole literature of LP-recorded sound (as far as generally available in the U.S.) in roughly 3½ years. To keep him up to date, he would want a 204-page catalog published monthly by William Schwann of Boston. In the ten years since LPs started flooding the market, the Schwann Long Playing Record Catalog has become a fascinating indication of music consumption in the vinyl era. Last week...