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Pain & Revolt. No classical artist demands and so often gets Rubinstein's high minimum guarantee ($3,500 a concert), but he is a good investment. At one concert in Lincoln, Neb. last year, Rubinstein earned $5,400 as his share of the box-office receipts. His Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No. 2 was Victor's 1946 best-selling classical album. The $85,000 he collected for three days' piano playing for the movie I've Always Loved You is still a Hollywood record...
Relief is promised for leg-weary undergraduate patrons of Widener Library, as entrances on two levels and a sunken ground floor will bring stair-climbing at the new building down to a minimum. The top floor of the Undergraduate Library will be as close to the yard level as the entrance of Widener...
Dionne, a religious man who goes to Mass every morning, is also a believer in the letter of the law. He keeps wages in most cases close to the legal minimum of 20? an hour, or $9.60 for a 48-hour week. Girls housed at Le Foyer spend $6 of this amount for board & keep...
...girls he wanted for his mill must be Roman Catholics and unmarried virgins. (An Army chaplain talked him out of the second requirement.) Once he got them to St. Georges, he promised, he would house them at Le Foyer, teach them about Canada, pay them the legal minimum of 20? an hour. He plans to spend $42,500 to fly the girls to Canada. "I can't wait for boats," says Ludger Dionne...
...become available to all who ask for it-the doctor must know donor and recipient well; 4) fees must be kept low, to eliminate mercenary motives; 5) the legal father, not the biological father, must be listed on the birth certificate; 6) signed papers must be kept to a minimum-or, better still, eliminated...