Word: iras
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...Ira Gershwin...
...oldtime radio announcer is supposed to have intoned, "here is a new song by George Gershwin and his lovely wife Ira." Such is the curse of being "the other one," of being merely famous when your younger brother is a legend in American music. Even within his family, Ira was heir to the unintentional slight: his father Morris could remember George's melodies, but to him Ira's song title Fascinating Rhythm was Fashion on the River. Working in George's immense shadow bred a wry modesty in Ira. For a 1959 collection of his lyrics...
...someone whose career began in 1917 with the lyric "You may throw all the rice you desire.But please, friends, throw no shoes" and concluded in 1954 with his lyrics for the Bing Crosby movie The Country Girl, Ira Gershwin did not do badly. Last week, when he died at 86, he had a "new" Broadway hit on Broadway (My One and Only, featuring 17 Gershwin songs) and a "new" movie about to be released (the restored, three-hour version of A Star Is Born, the 1954 Judy Garland vehicle he wrote with Harold Arlen). The words he set to music...
...enormous influx of cash held by pension funds and other institutions. Another source: $35 billion from individuals seeking to set up their own Keogh plans and individual retirement accounts, the latter provided under a law opening such benefits to all employees as of January 1982. Much of the IRA money was switched out of bonds and money market funds and into equity mutual funds (see chart). So was a great deal of non-IRA money. As interest rates dropped and private individuals saw they could make more money in securities, money market investments declined by $62 billion, even...
David Irons, a consultant to the Business School communications office, will take over the primarily public relations-oriented job in September, K-School Executive Dean Hale Champion said yesterday. Irons will replace Ira A. Jackson '70, who left the school to become Massachusetts Commissioner of Revenue...