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...Randlords," was going to take things much easier. In his three-story citadel he would still work his usual 16 hours a day, still sit firmly in the chairmanship of his Anglo American Corp. of South Africa, Ltd., the master holding company through which he has built an economic pyramid of more than 200 companies worth more than $2.5 billion. They control 15% of the Transvaal's gold production, 43% of its coal, 50% of its explosives, 9% of the world's copper, and a bewildering hodgepodge of enterprises ranging from breakfast foods to railways...
...inherited from an uncle, Landon arranged for the recording of four rarely heard Haydn symphonies by the Vienna Symphony Orchestra, led by young U.S. Conductor Jonathan Sternberg. Then he hit a bonanza; he persuaded a friend to invest $13,000 in the Haydn Society, assuring him it would "pyramid faster than Florida real estate." With his bonanza money, he hired a photographer and a musicologist, sent them up & down Austria, Germany and Hungary collecting and microfilming Haydn manuscripts. He also recorded the Nelson Mass, which sold 5,000 copies, put the society...
Occasionally he succeeds in drawing a chuckle, such as: "Although this structure (Khufu's Great Pyramid) failed as a tomb, it is one of the wonders of the world even today because it is the largest thing ever built for the wrong reason...
Director General Sir William Haley sees the three basic services as a cultural pyramid up which the listener is led "from good to better." Ideally, listeners begin this cultural mountain climb by tuning into the Light Program. As its name implies, the Light is aimed at the great mass of people who would rather listen to Irving Berlin than Johann Sebastian Bach. Of all British radio, it bears the closest resemblance to U.S. network radio. The Light's Mrs. Dale's Diary has some of the flavor and all the popularity of The Aldrich Family; Have...
...looked at the brown paper soap flakes box squatting sullenly in the middle of the floor, with a pyramid of books heaped up over its rim. Three years worth of junk, thought Vag, just taking up space. This year he would start differently. Vag seized the box with one hand and heaved the books out onto the rung...