Word: money
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...addition to his regular regional coverage, the Farm Journal's Streeter urges his home-office staff of 15 farm-savvy editors ("the best that money can lure and scouting can turn up-men and women with missionary spirit, who are anxious to help improve life on the farms") to play hooky from the magazine's comfortable building in downtown Philadelphia and roam the country. Streeter himself still likes to drop in unannounced on a farmer, politely decline the invitation into the parlor, and spend hours in the kitchen talking crops...
Three years ago Chalk bought Washington's well-hated, strike-bound transit system from Louis Wolfson, who had milked it of millions. Chalk put up only $500,000 of his own money, borrowed $9,100,000, plus a $3,900,000 mortgage, to take over a company with a book value of $27 million. He started out by painting Washington's buses glaring green and coral, installed shapely stewardesses on streetcars, last summer rolled out 100 new buses (67 of them air-conditioned) in a downtown parade with four bands, bathing beauties, clowns, calypso dancers. Hoopla-and hustling...
...Place to Hide. In Cheektowaga, N.Y., after $10,000 was found in a paper bag in a vacant lot, the money was claimed by Mary Panek, 65, who explained: "I was going away for a few days and didn't want to leave it in the house...
Sixth Sense. More than 80 novels, plays and volumes of short stories have made Maugham one of the most widely read writers in the world-and one of the richest. He makes no bones about money and the pleasures it buys: a villa on the Riviera, good cigars, expensive paintings, luxurious travel. As he once put it: "I had no intention of living on a crust in a garret if I could help it. I had found out that money was like a sixth sense without which you could not make the most of the other five." Maugham...
Tournament of Champions (NBC, 6-7 p.m.). The windup of the high-money ($40,000) invitational golf tournament at Las Vegas, with such shooters as Masters Champion Art Wall Jr., Arnold Palmer, Gene Littler and Gary Middlecoff gunning for the green...