Word: households
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Kubelik was one of the world's best in an age of great violinists (Kreisler, Ysaye, Auer, Zimbalist), had made himself a millionaire by his world-circling concert tours. Rafael began his musical training at five, picked out his first composition at eight on one of the Kubelik household's six pianos. At 14, he was enrolled at the Prague Conservatory, and in 1934, when Rafael was 20, his father considered him accomplished enough to go along on a world tour as his accompanist and conductor. Purpose of the tour: to rebuild the ruined Kubelik fortunes, help...
Died. Tsuneo Matsudaira, 72, suave, skillful onetime Japanese Ambassador to the U.S. (1925-28) and Britain (1928-36), confidant (as Imperial Household Minister) to Emperor Hirohito and father-in-law of the Emperor's brother, Prince Chichibu; of a heart attack; in Tokyo. As a moderate, he was hated by the military, unofficially cleared of war responsibility by the Allies, elected first president in 1947 of Japan's.new upper house, the House of Councilors...
...Each His Own. In Little Rock, Ark., the court awarded Mrs. Ruth Whitney a divorce and 231 household items, gave her husband "one rocking chair and one handmade doghouse...
...abashed, the Item ran another Page One picture of Otto and Virginia, reported the ROYAL HOUSEHOLD IN TURMOIL. Said the Item: "The last of the purported kaisers today had apparently abdicated his throne, after using it ... to get married to a socially prominent New Orleans woman . . . The bride is becoming suspicious. 'Who is he?' she wants to know...
Died. Solomon R. Guggenheim, 88, last of the seven Guggenheim brothers who, with their father, a Swiss-born peddler of household knickknacks, ran a $25,000 investment in two Colorado silver mines into one of the world's largest fortunes; in Port Washington, N.Y. With earnings from his share in his family's international mining interests (Alaskan copper, Chilean nitrate, Bolivian tin), Solomon donated millions to charity (mostly anonymously), in 1947 gave some $4,000,000 to establish the fourth of the famed Guggenheim foundations† which supports Manhattan's avant-garde Museum of Non-Objective Painting...