Word: notes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...stroke at 89. The short, precisely garbed body lay for two days in the coldly impersonal dignity of a Manhattan funeral parlor on Madison Avenue, and thousands filed past for a look. Along with friends and true admirers came a miscellaneous crowd who might never have heard a note Toscanini played, or who might not be able to tell one note from another, but who were sure that the little man had been a genius. And they were right...
...Kreuger's Depression-gored empire was bleeding cash too fast to be saved by bogus credit plasma. A sprinkling of embarrassing questions began. As they sat in the Hotel du Rhin waiting to hear his answers. Ivar Kreuger fobbed off his creditors with one final, non-negotiable note: "Goodbye now and thanks...
...dinner, "rollicking, adventurous" Larry Rue, as the Trib called him, received a $500 award from the Trib and provided the only deprecatory note. He was quoted as saying that "he had often heard the remark: 'You're all right, but it's too bad you work for the Chicago Tribune!'" Explained the Trib: "He always puts such people in their place by saying, 'The Tribune never asked me to work for it. I asked the Tribune. I am proud to work for the Tribune because I believe...
...hour, coast-to-coast memorial show being planned for the dead man as "a portrait in sound of the common man magnified." As the camera plays on the alert faces of the brass, each attentive but ready to cut off the speaker's head at the first false note, it is plain that Ferrer's fate is riding on the words he is improvising. When he finishes, the boss breaks the silence with three words: "I'll buy it." That throws the entire network behind Ferrer. He sets off with his tape recorder to find out from...
...unwarranted assumptions comes off better than the equivocator. He would deal with our question of Hume not by baffling the grader or fencing with him but like this: "It is absurd to discuss whether Hume is representative of the age in which he lived unless we first note the progress of that age on all intellectual fronts. After all, Hume did not live in a vacuum...