Word: knowns
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...above three items, all true, lead one to reconsider the warning of Mr. Eric Sevareid of CBS news last year, that perhaps we shouldn't rush off so quickly to see the other side of the moon. We're not ready, he said, because we don't yet known enough about the dark side of ourselves. Bearing in mind also the item from Ripley's Believe It Or Not that the Man in the Moon is upside down in South America, the Administration should give Servareid's idea serious consideration...
Bach: Arias (The Bach Aria Group, conducted by William Scheide; Decca). One of the nation's finest chamber groups, including Soprano Eileen Farrell and Tenor Jan Peerce, offers masterful performances of some little-known arias and duets from the Bach cantatas. At least two of them-Gott versorget alles Leben from Cantata 187 and Wenn kommt der Tag from Cantata 70-deserve a place on any Bach shelf...
...Prioresse's Tale Geoffrey Chaucer ended his version of one of the best-known stories of the Middle Ages. "In 1255," according to contemporary Chronicler Matthew Paris, "the Jews of Lincoln stole a boy called Hugh, who was about eight years old." After fattening him up, they were said to have staged a mock re-enactment of the Crucifixion, killing little Hugh to the accompaniment of fiendish tortures. "When the boy was dead," Paris concludes, "they took the body down from the cross, and for some reason disemboweled it; it is said for the purpose of their magic arts...
...famed tradition of the House of Morgan, which created huge industrial firms, bailed out whole governments and at the turn of the century all but controlled the financial destiny of the U.S. Morgan is still a name to conjure with. Its famed building at 23 Wall St. is known throughout the financial world as "The Corner." Said an international banker with an account at Alexander's bank: "When I cash a check abroad, they never look at my signature; they look at the name Morgan and cash it immediately...
...name of J. Pierpont Morgan & Co. He performed dazzling feats of finance one after another. His method was to buy control of banks and other financial institutions, use them to seize a dominating role in corporations, then reorganize, merge and centralize the corporations in a process that became known as "Morganization...