Word: childing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Early Career. Born in Yamaguchi Prefecture, 70 miles from Hiroshima, son of a poor sake manufacturer and an aristocratic mother (her father was a samurai) who demanded perfection. Nobusuke (meaning: defender of the trust) was a child prodigy at school, specialized in German law at Tokyo University, graduated at the top of his class (1920). With offers of teaching posts, he chose the civil service, joined the Agriculture and Commerce Ministry as a clerk, rose rapidly, toured (1926-27) in the U.S. and Europe studying the steel industry. Posted to Manchuria in 1937, he was a top economic czar...
When Edvard was 14. his elder sister Sophie died of tuberculosis. The delayed impact of his sister's death showed in Sick Child (opposite), a theme Munch first sketched when he was 22, continued obsessively in lithographs and oils. Owing some of its quality to the impressionist colors he had seen in Paris, it captures what he bore indelibly in his memory: "the pale head with bright red hair against the white pillow, the trembling lips, the transparent skin, the tired eyes...
Born. To Margaret Truman, 33, daughter of ex-President Harry Truman, and Elbert Clifton Daniel Jr., 44, assistant to the foreign editor of the New York Times: a son, their first child; in Manhattan (see PEOPLE). Name: Clifton Truman. Weight...
Born. To Hal March (real name: Harold Mendelson), 36, TV quizmaster ($64,000 Question), and Candy Toxton, 31, onetime model: a boy, their first child; in Manhattan. Name: Peter Lindsay. Weight...
...personal use. Theoretically, upper-bracket taxpayers can use it to cut their taxes from 87% to as little as 20%; it also works effectively for people with incomes as small as $10,000 annually. The wise taxpayer merely turns over part of his investments with their income to his child for his education or to an aged relative, for support for a minimum of ten years (and one day) or the lifetime of the beneficiary, whichever is shorter. While the trust beneficiary must pay normal income taxes on the trust income, his tax bracket is generally much lower than that...