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...ANTA (American National Theater and Academy), a privately financed, nonprofit organization, which has been sending American artists abroad with its own funds since the late 1940s. Last August, Congress appropriated $5,000,000 for U.S. participation in foreign-trade fairs and cultural events, asked ANTA to be its contractor for talent, and set aside $2,250,000 for it to get the program rolling. ANTA utilizes panels of top critics to select its export talent (mostly big-name, to attract attention), depends on professional managers to supervise productions. Although the Government sometimes gets requests from Congressmen to send little home...
...California Father Jess Knight made a comfortable living as a street and grading contractor who built miles of Los Angeles County's roads. During World War I, he lost his business and nearly $250,000 in a disastrous municipal-bond investment, but later recouped and became a successful mining speculator...
...clear advantage is with the Fortunate Altruist according to Director Sorokin. The perfect example is given in the life history of Serafim of Sarov: "Born in the pious family of a building contractor, Serafim early showed his religiosity by playing around a church which his mother had built..." His life ended appropriately at the age of 74 as he died quietly in the keeping position of prayer...
...happened to Baltimore's Mayor Thomas D'Alesandro. who helped to get the Orioles their big-league franchise-and what happened to Tommy was all bad: his son was involved in a teen-age vice scandal, his wife admitted receiving $11,000 from a city contractor, and the contractor was convicted of conspiracy to defraud the city. For a time, both D'Alesandro and the Orioles were flat on their backs: the ball club in the cellar and the mayor in the hospital with a nervous collapse. Eventually, little Tommy D'Alesandro jumped...
...George moved up to the State Court of Appeals, then to the Georgia Supreme Court as an associate justice. He resigned in 1922, and went back to Vienna to handle the estate of his late father-in-law, hard-bitten old Joseph Heard, a cotton grower, undertaker, warehouseman, building contractor and mule trader, whose bouncing, irrepressible daughter Lucy had become George's wife in 1903. One lazy summer afternoon George was fishing on the Flint River near Vienna when he got word of the death of rabble-rousing Senator Tom Watson, bitter isolationist and onetime Populist Party candidate...