Word: companion
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...investigators have begun probing an especially intriguing bit of financing -a contribution of $100,000 to Nixon by Billionaire Howard Hughes. The gift, allegedly meant to be used for campaigning, was received and held for more than three years by Charles G. ("Bebe";) Rebozo, Nixon's favorite weekend companion, who may be called to testify before the committee about the transaction...
...companion piece on the Symphony recording is the overture Di Ballo. Despite brilliant engineering and adequate musicianship, it remains a mediocre work. Curiously enough, it is the only large non-operetta of Sullivan's that has survived straight through in the repetoire from its composition. It may still be heard occasionally played by the Boston Pops. But it remains an inferior piece, especially when contrasted to the better examples of a form in which Sullivan excelled. The record of Di Ballo and the E-minor Symphony is avoidable for all but the most avid students either of symphonic history...
...Bette's idea of a bed companion is a good book." So complained Bandleader Harmon Nelson Jr., first husband of Unabashable Actress Bette Davis. Last week, three husbands later, Davis, 65, gave away much of her bedtime reading to Boston University's Mugar Library. Changing homes in Westport, Conn., she donated more than 4,000 books covering four decades of theater and the arts. True to style, she overwhelmed the competition. Even though Movie Queens Myrna Loy and Joan Fontaine have given their personal papers to the same library, Special Collections Curator Howard Gotlieb will house the Davis...
Solar Cycle. Other earthlings aboard Skylab did not fare as well. The spider Arabella, which became famous by demonstrating that it could spin a web in zero G, survived the return to earth. But its arachnid companion Anita died before the end of the mission, apparently of starvation; Anita stubbornly refused to eat the morsels of filet mignon that were offered. Other casualties were the two minnows that had been carried aboard Skylab. However, their offspring - the first earth creatures to be born in space (except, perhaps, for some offspring of stowaway bacteria on earlier nights) - made it safely...
Only in the last, painful year of his life did he taste real happiness with Dora Dymant, a 19-year-old Hebrew scholar. As sympathetic companion, nurse, mistress and daughter figure, she telescoped into those fleeting months all that Kafka had sought in a woman...