Word: marianism
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...years rotund, toothless George Herbert Naylor has worked for a wholesale grocer firm in Wisbech (rhymes with fizz peach), Cambridgeshire. For almost every one of those years his plump wife Lillian has borne him a child. George's wages are ?4 10s.. a week. His eldest daughters Marian (18) and Hazel (17) bring home some ?3 between them from jobs at local shops...
...daughter of a Virginia chauffeur, was teaching in a Danville Negro school. After she sang at Virginia State College, an alumni group raised a fund to help her continue her music studies. She studied in Philadelphia, working as a movie usher on the side. More help came from the Marian Anderson Award of $750 which...
Telephone Hour (Mon. 9 p.m., NBC). Marian Anderson in a program of Mozart, Gluck and spirituals...
...royalty check from RCA-Victor for six months' sales of his phonograph records. It was one of the biggest single royalty checks RCA-Victor has ever issued. It put him in a class with some of Victor's all-time moneymakers: Caruso, Alma Gluck and Marian Anderson. Added to his Hollywood salary of about $100,000 a picture, and an annual income of $200,000 from concerts, it established Pianist Iturbi in the financial big league in music...
...minutes without squirming and your eyes and ears are still in his direction, then I personally believe that artist will be a success." In a Paris concert hall he once heard a little-known American Negro contralto, offered to sign her on the spot. Today Marian Anderson is his biggest moneymaker ($175,000 a year for herself, about $50,000 for Hurok...