Word: riches
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Blanc up, for her young Owner William J. ("Buddy") Hirsch, son of famed Trainer Max Hirsch: $52,000 and the gold Widener Challenge Cup, in the richest event of Florida's most profitable racing season; on the last day of the meeting at Hialeah Park, near Miami. Said rich Track Owner Joseph Widener while presenting his Cup to Buddy Hirsch: ". . . I think that Columbiana is young Mr. Hirsch's only horse. ... It proves once again that all men are equal on and under the turf...
...floor in anguish while writing Brünnhilde's songs. Time and again he asked himself whether any woman alive would be equal to them. Last week's audience again marveled at Kirsten Flagstad's command of the role, the way she used her strong, rich voice to convey Brünnhilde's unutterable happiness with Siegfried, her rage at being betrayed, the grimness with which she sought his death...
...Cigna, who has been singing roles at La Scala since Toscanini recommended her there six years ago. The late great Respighi chose her to take the lead in his La Fiamma. Mme Cigna made her Metropolitan debut last month as Aïda. Her singing was so warm and rich, her dramatic sense so keen, that the audience called her before the curtain time after time. Later she sang Ponchielli's La Gioconda, Bellini's Norma, Leonora in Verdi's Il Trovatore. Though Cigna has a frail lower voice and occasionally forces notes, she sang these ornate...
Three of the six committee members certainly owed allegiance to Standard, which happens to be the biggest single taxpayer in oil-rich Colombia-Director Bedford, Standard's attorney James Henry Hayes and Adman Harrison K. McCann of McCann-Erickson, some 15% of whose business is in Standard Oil accounts. Furthermore, the committee had occupied rent-free quarters in the Standard Oil building at No. 26 Broadway, Manhattan. On the face of it, grumbled Mr. Teagle to Director Bedford, he was forced to agree with a friend of his who remarked that the committee was "pretty well plastered with...
...General Foods Corp. and Vice President Thomas L. Smith of Standard Brands. Each student has space in the general office, where he is supplied with Ediphones and secretaries. At nearby Wellesley College the Institute's students are called "Babson Babies." Another Babson Institution is Webber College, which introduces rich young ladies to the business world, functions in Boston's Charlesgate Hotel in the autumn, then moves to Babson Park, Fla. where graduations are held in May. Webber College is named for Mr. Babson's granddaughter Camilla Grace Webber...