Word: harrison
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...equally senseless to try to find the culprits for the Met's failings. Perhaps one is architect Wallace K. Harrison. Perhaps a gaggle of interior decorators are to blame. Or maybe we should accuse the board of bankers, who have a tendency to raise thousands of dollars and then spoil everything by adding their own two cents...
Grand Irrationalities. At that, the showcase easily upstaged whatever took place behind the proscenium. The cavernous auditorium (3,800 seats-179 more than in the old house) is an acoustical success. There, and throughout the red-carpeted corridors, lobbies and unfurling marble staircases, Architect Wallace K. Harrison...
...Though there have been father-son (John and John Quincy Adams), grandfather-grandson (William H. and Benjamin Harrison) and cousin-cousin (Teddy and Franklin Roosevelt) takeovers...
...Percy Harrison, who worked in a Lincolnshire fertilizer factory, was a stranger to the pools. A farm laborer most of his life, Harrison, 52, had seldom earned more than $40 a week. He and his buxom wife Maude had raised four daughters and a son, and Maude still picked potatoes to help meet the $14 a month payments on their cottage. Harrison had seldom been outside his village, and never to London -or to a soccer game. For the first time in his life, three weeks ago he took a 140 flutter. It brought him a $1.40 windfall...
Mamma knew best. Nine games ended in ties; the Harrisons picked eight of them-the only bettors in all Britain to get that many. Last week, uncomfortable in baggy suit and errant tie, Percy Harrison journeyed wide-eyed to London to receive, amid the pop of champagne corks and the glare of TV lights, the largest single win in the soccer-pool history: $947,400 on his bet of 520. "I felt a bit of a shiver come over me," said Harrison, after he heard he had won. In London to collect the money, he looked a little dazed...