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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...penalties of being a dissident Communist is the entertainment of all sorts of inquisitive capitalists, was in the midst of an even fancier social calendar. Ethiopia's Emperor Haile Selassie, first crowned head ever voluntarily to visit a Communist country, dropped in and celebrated his 62nd birthday in Belgrade. Later this summer, to repay Tito's visit of last June, Greece's King Paul and Queen Frederika will try out Tito's growing talents as a host...
Montgomery Ward Thorne seemed to have everything. He grew up with a $4,200 model railroad, a collection of guns, a speedboat and an Oldsmobile convertible. If he had reached his 21st birthday next October, he would have come into a fortune. His father, Gordon Thorne. a hard-drinking heir of a Montgomery Ward & Co. founder, had left his fourth wife and their son Monty $3,000,000 in trust. But Monty's life was full of unhappiness, and his death was full of horror...
...then where would I be? 4) Worry. Could I physically stand it? 5) Less time with the children. Heaven knows it is little enough now. FOR-1) A little greater material return. 2) It would be a new challenge." On Sept. 1, 1945, on Bill Allen's 45th birthday, he decided to take up the challenge; he resigned from his law firm to become Boeing's president at $50,000 a year. By surface indication, Bill Allen was taking over a soaring giant of the air world. Boeing employment still stood at almost 30,000 in Seattle...
...roster of hardy booklovers who could never quite untangle its polysyllabic characters distinctly enough to muddle through War and Peace, a distinguished new name was added. The bored nonreader: Author Leo Tolstoy himself. In Chicago, on the eve of her 70th birthday, the great Russian novelist's daughter, Countess Alexandra Tolstoy, confided that her unpredictable father preferred his folk tales and short stories to the eye-straining 687,000 words of his most famous novel. "He never reread War and Peace," said she. "And when he heard us reading it aloud one day, he didn't even recognize...
...show them some." Jack did. To his astonishment, the gallery directors gave him ?10 for one of his pictures on the spot, urged him to come back in six months with more work. Last week, just two weeks before his 28th birthday, the gallery displayed 44 of Jack's paintings on its swank walls, and hailed him as England's first 20th century primitive, a "Grandma Moses in embryo." In contrast to Grandma Moses' lovingly literal rendition of a world she knows, Taylor paints a world of dreams far from the squalor and drabness of the London...