Word: fines
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...advice was fine, but results were slow. In the early winter of 1901, while Captain Jinks of the Horse Marines limped toward Broadway, 21-year-old Ethel Barrymore was sick with fear. And she suffered doubly because she had been born to the stage. Her father, Maurice Barrymore, was a matinee idol. Her actress mother, Georgiana Drew Barrymore, and her uncle, John Drew, two of the topflight actors of the day, could trace their lineage back to the strolling players of Elizabethan England. Anxious not to disgrace the family, Ethel asked herself over and over again: "Why am I doing...
...indicted by federal grand jury with Roy Fruehauf, president of Fruehauf Trailer Co., and Burge Seymour, president of Associated Transport, Inc. Government charged that $200,000 loan from Fruehauf's and Seymour's companies violated Taft-Hartley Act. Maximum penalty: a year in jail and $10,000 fine...
...heart attack; in Johnson City, N.Y. Mystery still shrouds Barbara's famed barbecue, where police caught 65 Mafia mobsters carrying among them $300,000 in cash, a combined record of 153 arrests, 74 convictions. An immigrant (1921) from Sicily who was convicted only once (a $5,000 fine for sugar smuggling). Barbara avoided police for 25 years at Apalachin, but after his party he was indicted -with 26 others-for refusing to explain the purpose of the meeting and for evading $14,000 in income taxes...
Points of View, by W. Somerset Maugham. In his latest last book, the writer, who ages like fine brandy, rambles thoughtfully about miscellaneous topics...
Unlike the oil and sculpture exhibits, the drawings shown were selected from an open national competition. Here 156 artists each had one or two works on display. Among the best artists were Wendell Fore Jr., Howard Hardy, Lawrence Kupferman (again), and Pietro Lazzari. A fine example of representational art was Frank L. Viner's "Man"; of non-representational, Tetsuo Ochikubo...