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Today, to the limit of his pocketbook, the music lover can buy 128 complete recorded operas, from Mozart to Gershwin (the biggest U.S. opera companies can mount only about 20 a season). He can have song cycles by Mahler, rare tone poems by Strauss, tropical novelties by Villa-Lobos, and scores of other out-of-the-way pieces, many of them complete strangers...
Thus, 15 months after he took power promising his people "comfort and ease," the great nationalist departed, leaving his country richer in pride and poorer in power and pocketbook. He had cut off Iran's nose to spite its face. Deprived of $100 million a year in direct and indirect revenues from the Anglo-Iranian Oil Co., unable to sell its oil abroad, Iran's treasury was running into the red at a $10 million-a-month clip. Mossadegh's policies were bankrupt, and Iran was nearly...
...crossing the Boulevard des Capucines one night last month, after attending the opera, when a motorcyclist roared down the street and hit her; she suffered a broken left leg. "Right away," she says, "I thought of my little card." Her friends fished it out of her pocketbook and handed it to the gendarme who sent her, d'urgence, to the American Hospital. Card or no, the police probably would have sent her there anyway, but it made Miss McMahon feel better to have some say in the matter...
...Austerity. By then, Stafford Cripps was in a way the most powerful man in Britain. As Chancellor of the Exchequer and Minister for Economic Affairs, he ruled the cupboard, stomach and pocketbook of every Briton. Prim and trim, he peered coldly through half-moon glasses, wore a smile that looked like the result of a bite from a persimmon, seemed always to be telling fuel-short Britons to take cold baths (as he had done every day for years). He was Mr. Austerity. Actually, Stafford Cripps was affable, friendly, generous. Britons knew he was doing a grim job that...
...brand new chartreuse angora sweater, the simulated stickleback hiking and gavotte slippers, the rhinestone and jezebal belt buckle depicting scenes from the War of Jenkins' Ear. Then, with one gesture, she dissipates last scrapings from her depleted cache and purchases a grosgrain plastic imitation-borzoi hip-strap pocketbook, to carry money...