Word: costs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...celebrate her 20-year climb from a Newark church choir to the prestige-drenched Empire Room of Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, organ-toned Songstress Sarah Vaughan rushed out and bought a $60,000 house in suburban New Jersey. One feature: a set of entrance chimes (cost: $450) that plays one of Sarah's biggest hits, How High the Moon. Exulted she: "I used to eat for a year on the price of what it now costs to ring my silly old doorbell...
...beefs. Last year 15% of the Air Force's college R.O.T.C. units turned out only 218 of the 4,000 required officers; yet these colleges were staffed with 221 military personnel. The Air Force spends an average of $6,943 for each officer entering active duty, but the cost at individual institutions ranges from...
...pays off at the box office whether his shows are being polished in Director Joan Littlewood's East End Theater Royal or bargaining for big money on the other side of town. Even in the West End his productions are usually low budget. "Good characters don't cost you any more to create," he argues. "Good lines don't cost any more. Heart doesn't cost any more...
...Times (and the combined Sunday Star) imperiously forced subscribers to take both papers and made advertisers buy space in both or stay out. In 1955, the U.S. Government broke up this trust by decree, prompting dozens of civil damage suits brought by vicinity papers and advertisers claiming injury. The cost in embarrassment was great, and that was not all. The financial strain caused the Star to postpone an ambition of many years' standing to print its own Sunday supplement, and kept it from a new effort to improve its lagging color program...
...training analysis before he can qualify. And even with professional discount, the analysis comes high: average, $20 five times a week for three years. Two psychiatrists, Drs. Arnold Namrow of Washington and Jay Cohen Maxwell of Houston, argued that they ought to be able to deduct these couch costs from their taxable income as either a business expense or a medical service. Last week the U.S. Tax Court ruled against them. The training analysis, it held, is part of the curriculum for which budding analysts sign up to gain "advancement in position," is therefore an educational cost -and nondeductible...