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...public on a basis known as "reproduction cost new."* On this plushy basis, which automatically kept rates high in good & bad times alike, the utilities waxed fat and great. Last week, amid dissents that had the black-robed Justices wrangling like lawyers, the Supreme Court finally shaved off the plush...
...48th annual convention of the National Association of Manufacturers assembled, 4,000 strong, at Manhattan's plush Waldorf-Astoria Hotel last week. For once, there were plenty of fireworks in the three-day session...
Notices had gone out that stocky, greying Monsignor Miguel de Andrea, Argentina's popular Bishop of Temnos, would open the meeting of the National Academy of Moral Sciences and Politics in Buenos Aires' plush Teatro Colon. Then everyone remembered that Monsignor Andrea was a liberal; in his youth he had even led a fisherman's strike. Like a pampas fire, word spread that the Bishop would discourse on liberty and the people's right to elect their own authorities...
Died. Benjamin Anzelevitz, 52, "Ben Bernie, the O-O-Old Maestro," genial, plush-voiced veteran of stage, radio, screen; of a lung infection with heart complications ; in Beverly Hills. An East Side New York blacksmith's son, at 15 he gave a violin recital in Carnegie Hall, took up engineering after hearing Mischa Elman's debut.* In a Brauhaus he played his way through college, finally landed in vaudeville as "Ben, The Eccentric Violinist." In the early '20s he formed one of the country's leading dance bands (for a while his pianist was Oscar Levant...
...nursemaid reading a bedtime story to enthralled five-year-olds ("Coked to the gills, Beardon lunged toward the supine figure on the red-plush couch...