Word: gould
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...about time. For months SEC and the American Stock Exchange had been casting a suspicious eye on the trading in Sweet Grass, a favorite of the little speculator. Fortnight ago, Hearst Financial Columnist Leslie Gould listed it in his "Don't Be a Sucker" series as one of the hot items peddled over the counter by boiler shops using batteries of phones and sweet-talking salesmen. There were several reports that holders of big blocks of the stock were pushing it on over-the-counter brokers at 15% under the market price. On the American Exchange the stock became...
Died. Owen Gould Davis, 82, pudgy, hornrimmed, onetime record-breaking Harvard dashman, who ground out more than 200 melodramas ("You may strike me, Harold Halverton, but there is a God that will protect a woman's honor") and serious plays, won the Pulitzer Prize (1923) with Icebound; after long illness; in Manhattan...
...Glenn Gould; Columbia). Young triple-threat (composer, conductor, pianist) Musician Gould again displays his phenomenal ability to make the piano talk. He indulges his youthful exuberance, which results in some spectacular speed but also-at least in this late Beethoven-gives the impression of skimming the surface...
Died. The Marquis Jason Boniface de Castellane, 53, quiet-living, inconspicuous son of Railroad Heiress Anna Gould (now the Duchesse de Talleyrand-Perigord) and her first husband, the late Marquis Boni de Castellane; in Salernes, France...
...Whatever Gould's eccentricities, they have not interfered with his swift rise to the top rank of contemporary performers. Now he is tempted to give up performing for composing; he wants ultimately to devote only two months or so a year to playing and the rest of the time to composing. "Before I'm 70," says young Glenn Gould, "I'd like to have made some good recordings and composed some chamber music, finished a couple of symphonies and an opera...