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...career he planned to be rich. His mother was an important brewer's daughter and he has never known TIME, June 25, 1934 poverty. His domineering wife, an old-time singer, supports him when he says that there is no great glory in going to a pauper's grave like Schubert. Only at skat, his favorite recreation, will he risk a gamble. Strauss's 70th birthday brought forth countless praises. But the tall, ruddy-cheeked old composer remained as detached and matter-of-fact as when he said years ago: "If my compositions are good, or mark...
...name Chao Kung, had his hair clipped and the twelve circular brands of the Buddhist wheel of life burned into his bullet pate. Two years ago he returned to Germany to gain converts. Jailed in Cologne for an old debt he had forgotten, he got out by swearing a pauper's oath, returned to China followed by such neophyte Buddhists as a French perfumer, a filling station manager, a professor's widow, an Italian composer. Chao Kung opened a monastery of his own, drew crowds with his lectures in Chinese and English. But last year he was still...
Last spring George Graham Rice arrived in Manhattan, suave, paunchy and in his usual high spirits. On leaving jail he had taken a pauper's oath but reporters found him in a swank 16-room apartment. To a list of 200 names picked at random from among his Idaho Copper stockholders, he sent greetings and asked them if they were "meeting the challenge" of the New Deal. The response to this "feeler" was good...
...Please, Your Honor," whined Pauper William Nodes, 27, in a London court last week, "don't part me and the rat." The judge looked appraisingly at Nodes' pet rat in a cage on the barristers' table, frowned severely at Nodes. Clearing his throat he then did British Justice: "I sentence you, William Nodes, to six months in prison as an incorrigible rogue. The rat will be sent to a good home...
...niece's marriage and she boldly denied it, he swore a terrible revenge. One night as Abelard slept hired bravos seized and gelded him. Now there was no longer any place for the arrogant Abelard; he who might have been a prince of the Church became its pauper. He and Heloise were separated forever. But when Authoress Waddell's story leaves him, an infinitely sadder, somewhat wiser man, his thatched hut in the country has become another lecture-hall, and once more he is emptying Paris of its scholars...