Word: cyrus
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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John Richard Cyrus Di Giacomo...
...Cyrus Robinson Taylor...
...idea looked like the hottest thing in the Curtis publishing empire since Cyrus Curtis picked up the Saturday Evening Post for $1,000 in 1897. At least, that's the way it looked to J. Frank Beaman. Beaman tried it out on his boss, Curtis President Walter D. Fuller: Americans love to enjoy themselves, spend billions on their vacations, but have no first-rate magazine to help them enjoy their fun & games...
...last year, behind an anonymous office door, Beaman (a financial editor until he became Fuller's secretary eight years ago) labored in secrecy with a small staff. Rumors floated from Independence Square that conservative Curtis would launch a major magazine from scratch for the first time since Mrs. Cyrus Curtis started the Ladies' Home Journal...
Since the days of Darius and Cyrus, the kingdom had descended far. It was still large (a fifth as big as the U.S.) and its mountains and desert contrasts were still dramatically scenic. But of Mohamed Reza's 15 million subjects a few thousand lived in lavish luxury, and almost all the rest in ragged poverty. At least eleven million of them had venereal disease. Most of the adults were opium addicts. Four out of every five children born died in infancy. Three out of every four who survived never learned to read or write...