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...overhauled the little-known historical quarterly, American Heritage, in 1954. saw it soar as a bright new bimonthly to a circulation of more than 300,000. Unlike Heritage, which was begun on an initial investment of $65,000, Horizon blossomed forth after a ripe overture of expensive nourishes and drum pounding...
...night warblers in English pubs (but avoided Wales, which is "a tragedy; everything is Methodist hymns and Handel"). He has mapped the world folk-song families, found surprising links between them. The pinch-voiced, samisen-playing geisha finds an echo in the Spanish mountain-farm laborer thumping a ximbomba drum; "the lonesome, death-ridden American cowboy is a blood cousin to the raga singer in India...
Diners' had no serious competition until old, bold American Express three months ago dealt itself into the card game, enlisted the aid of its worldwide contacts to drum up members. Through banks, American Express mailed applications to 8,000,000 depositors-people who obviously have some money to spend. President Ralph T. Reed also sent personal letters to 22,000 corporation presidents. More than 300 American Expressmen started knocking on doors of executive suites all round the U.S. to sell the credit card (charge: $6 per year for initial card, $3 for other members of the same firm...
...Paris to be sent to the pawnbroker's and have the diamonds picked out one by one?" There are anecdotes of the ' stamina and courage that made her beloved in old age-as when she trudged determinedly in George II's Coronation procession and "seized a drum from a drummer and blithely sat down on it [to rest]." Once, when the doctor whispered to an assistant, "She must be blistered or she will die," he heard the 80-year-old matriarch bellow back: "I won't be blistered...
...strongman President Iskander Mirza denied that he had ever discussed federation with other nations. In Teheran. Premier Manouchehr Eghbal was more careful: "Iran has no intention of participating in a federation with Pakistan and Afghanistan in the immediate future." Radio Kabul made its answer clear by beating the drum again for an independent "Pakhtoonistan," to include a large slice of West Pakistan...