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...Wolter went on. "As far back as I can remember I wanted to see mountains, oceans--just see the world. I collected maps, railroad timetables, what have you." Once, he tracked his family genealogically and geographically, the German side that settled in Iowa in 1847 and became hide and fur merchants, and the more footloose English side that came first from Liverpool to Wisconsin and then itinerantly followed the lines of the railroads west. The boy hooked himself on the notion of travel, and in 1943, when he was 18, he shipped out with the merchant marine...
...were soon replaced by a bazaar of movie merchants who had arrived in the U.S. barely before the masses they hoped to enlighten. The roll call of Jewish-immigrant moguls has since become its own Hollywood legend: Adolph Zukor, the Hungarian who had worked as janitor in a Manhattan fur store (president of Paramount Pictures); Carl Laemmle, the bookkeeper from Germany (founder, Universal Pictures); Samuel Goldwyn, the glove salesman from Warsaw (founder, Goldwyn Studios); Louis B. Mayer, the scrap-metal dealer from Minsk (vice president and general manager, Metro- Goldwyn-Mayer). By the 1930s Mayer was earning $1.25 million...
...sellers. It claims still to be No. 1. But even if sales momentum has slowed, Coleco hopes to build an ever growing patch of ancillary products. Toy stores currently stock Coleco's Cabbage Patch doll pets ('Koosas) and infant dolls (Preemies). Coming soon: a doll-size fun fur, a pet pony and dolls dressed in foreign garb...
Baldrige also spent two days in talks with Soviet Foreign Trade Minister Nikolai Patolichev. Although the Commerce Secretary did not discuss Soviet purchases of strategic materials or technology, he agreed to ask Congress to lift a 34-year-old ban on certain Soviet fur imports. The Soviets agreed to ask their trade organizations not to discriminate against U.S. companies. Though the talks are not expected to bring about a major increase in U.S.-Soviet trade, which now amounts to some $3.85 billion a year, Baldrige called them "a solid start...
Beethoven: The Five Piano Concertos; Six Bagatelles, Op. 126; Andante Favori; "Fur Elise." Vladimir Ashkenazy, piano, with Zubin Mehta conducting the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra; London, 4 CDs. Despite its familiarity, the cycle of Beethoven concertos remains a severe test of mettle for pianists, as well as a handy yardstick for audiences with which to measure them. From the idiosyncratic classicism of the Second, which was the first in order of composition, to the incipient romanticism of the Emperor, the last, is a span of some 20 years but the musical journey of a lifetime...