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...IDA M. BETZLER Canton, Ohio...
...legged Jewish kid on Manhattan's Lower East Side ("In New York State," he says, "that is like being born in a log cabin"). Of his boyhood, Javits recalls that "the most money I ever had was a penny-and that only on a special occasion." His mother, Ida Littman Javits, had been abandoned by her parents in Palestine and forced to start work at the age of six. Illiterate until she was past 50, she helped support her family by selling dry goods from a pushcart (last winter, on a trip to Israel, Javits stopped in Safed...
...Khedive having gone broke paying for, among other things, Giuseppe Verdi's A'ida, which he commissioned to celebrate completion of the canal...
American, which began life in the days of the second Grant Administration as Frank Leslie's Popular Monthly, embraced the whole rise of mass magazine journalism. Changed to American in 1906, it spent a muckraking youth publishing Lincoln Steffens, Ida Tarbell and Ray Stannard Baker, made its biggest impact under Editor John Siddall, who pushed circulation from less than 500,000 to over 2,000,000 between 1915 and 1923 with the inspirational magic of success stories. In its time, American was the first to run Kipling's If and Edna Ferber's short stories, ranged...
Dick Powell, who, after running Four Star Playhouse in partnership with David Niven, Charles Boyer and Ida Lupino, was dropped by CBS in favor of a CBS-owned program, Playhouse 90. Cried Powell: "I think the network is getting to be monopolistic...