Word: myrick
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Thoughtful Style. Until a heart attack in 1918 sapped his energy, Ives composed almost all of his music in the evenings and on weekends. Weekdays he spent working as a founding partner in the prominent New York insurance agency, Ives & Myrick, where he conceived the idea of "estate planning." Ives took almost as sweeping and humanitarian a view of life insurance as he did of music. He bucked at the notion that coverage was a privilege of the well-to-do, and began issuing more small policies to low-income householders. He also organized the Ives & Myrick training school...