Word: dime
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...taste for china figurines, once the playthings of Europe's princes, has largely descended to the level of the cheap knickknacks on a dime-store counter. Yet those minor masterpieces of the 18th century which survive today are attracting a growing band of devoted collectors willing to pay up to $15,000 apiece for their finds. One of the most successful, as the newly published catalogue of his Meissen china (Harvard University Press; $25) makes plain, is Manhattan's Irwin Untermyer...
...right?' and Orv would say, 'Don't worry about a thing.'" Epping would then appear, cash the checks and take away some cash, leaving the rest in a brown envelope marked "Hodge." Ed Hintz, describing himself as "stupid but honest," said he never took a dime for his services, had gone along out of "friendship" and because he thought Hodge's dodge was "normal" among Illinois politicians...
...invited to send your free-will gifts and offerings for the support of this worldwide faith ministry to . . ."). Others use the hard-sell technique ("Mail those contributions now, because we have to pay up our back bill to wonderful KGER. I wish more of you would pledge a dime a day so we won't have to talk money. Keep those tithes coming in"). Whatever the method, the collections are often sensationally profitable. One established evangelist averages $35,000 weekly...
Looking every inch the dowager, aging (43) Five & Dime Heiress Barbara Hutton and her sixth husband, ex-Tennistar Baron Gottfried von Cramm, turned out for a France v. West Germany tennis match, a regional Davis Cup competition in Duisburg, West Germany. Despite gossip that No. 6 is also bound for the rocks, unsmiling Barbara appeared to be neither rollicking nor rifting with jobless Von Cramm...
Beyond the Call. In St. Marys, W. Va., after the operator refused to return his dime when he complained of a poor connection, Truck Driver Myles Milton yanked the phone off the wall, smashed it on the floor, told police: "I was tired...