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British Ambassador Lord Inverchapel, in McCook, Neb. to dress up the dedication of a dam, peered at the razzle-dazzle in wonder and made a traveler's observation: "In my country we help our celebrations along with beer and whiskey. You people do it on coffee...
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...
...secret of my success," Roscoe Pound once wrote, "is my blame memory." As a boy in Lincoln, Neb. (he was the son of a local judge), he used to disrupt Sunday school classes by rattling off a chapter of the Bible after only one reading. After graduating from the University of Nebraska at 17, he studied and practiced law, found time to take a Ph.D. in botany and direct a botanical survey of Nebraska (there is a roscopoundia lichen...
Representative Curtis (R-Neb) said "The action is a confession of failure by the Democrats of their planned economy...
While neighbors looked on approvingly, bulldozers dragged the fertile topsoil from John Haussermann's farm near Alma, Neb. and dug deep into the subsoil. The draglines and scrapers were collecting fill for a dam across one of Big Muddy's most fractious tributaries, the Republican. After more than a century of periodic suspense and terror, men were harnessing their old enemy, the Missouri River...