Word: interested
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Lasker's house on Manhattan's stylish Beekman Place is decorated with paintings (by Dali, Picasso, Matisse) from her art-dealer days. But her real interest now is the foundation and the awards. Says she: "One human being on fire can do so much and nobody was paying much attention to the fire that came from these men." The awards, she thinks, may fan the fire...
Back from a desperate search for a human-interest story, a Minor sport-writer wrote: "Ed Barrow, the Babe's rough, tough baseball father, pulled up the shade on the years to let the sunshine of the Bambino's rollicking history pour through the room of his tree-shrouded Rye home as he abstractedly nodded: 'Babe Ruth was just a human citizen-a human American citizen.'" Westbrook Pegler, putting his worst (kickless) foot forward, told how Ruth, "a burly oaf [who] could suck half a pound of tobacco and spit through his ears," had autographed...
After World War I, when he went to live in Europe, Higgins' name all but dropped out of the news. It turned up once more in the papers in 1921 when, out of an amateur interest in physics, he offered $5,000 for the best simple explanation of the law of relativity.* Last week, when his lawyers opened his will (he died last month at 90), they learned that Bachelor Eugene Higgins had left $40 million to four universities (Yale, Harvard, Princeton, and Columbia) "for the general advancement of science through investigation, research, and experimentation...
Larson had some good cards in his hand, too. Last week, he abruptly stopped haggling with Republic, turned to Henry Kaiser, who had once shown an interest in the plant. Asked Larson: Would Kaiser be willing to pay a minimum rent of $800,000 a year? Kaiser, who needs steel for his Kaiser-Frazer automobiles and knows that he can swap pig iron for it, jumped at the offer...
...authorized by the special session of Congress. Requirements thereafter: a one-third down payment on new or used automobiles and 20% on most household goods, payment of the balance in 15 months (if less than $1,000) or 18 months (if above $1,000). Meanwhile the trend toward higher interest rates, which the Treasury and FRB had started by upping their short-term and rediscount rates, continued; the Chase National Bank raised its rates on call money (brokers' loans) from...