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The Pactolus River brought gold dust from the mountains into the center of the city, where King Croesus, whose names is still associated with great riches, had it removed and turned into coins--the first known instance of coinage in the Western world Croesus's wealth and power rivalled even...
Noël Coward once went backstage and tartly informed the two leading players in one of his shows that their performance was "a triumph of nevermind over doesn't-matter." If Coward were around to chide Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton for a similar self-indulgence, he would...
For a while at least, William Alderdice, 39, and his brother James, 26, seemed to have the Midas touch. During the past three years, they transformed a small storefront jewelry business in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., into the International Gold Bullion Exchange (IGBE), a thriving enterprise with 1,000 employees, branch...
The man with the Midas touch arrived on the Dayton campus in the fall of 1977 to take over a football program that had not had a winning season since man had touched lunar turf. That first year, the team went 8-3 Then 9-2-1 Then 8-2...
With this month's opening of Cate in New York, Webber now has three shows on Broadway (Joseph and His Amazing Technicolor Dreamcont is the third). Each rolls onstage to packed houses, each rolls off leaving a wealthier producer. Perhaps the Harvard Corporation could convince Midas-touch Webber to compose...