Word: riches
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Macy's, neatly fusing politics with haberdashery, offered its customers the Candidate Cravat-a 99? necktie of "rich, fullbodied rayon" bearing a picture of either Harry Truman or Tom Dewey...
Broad-chested Pastor Thurman spoke quietly in his rich baritone. "There is in each of us an innermost center," he began. "When we are concerned with our business and the details of living, this is difficult to discover . . . During these half hours together, let us enter into this experience and quiet...
...Promoter. Serge Pavlovich Diaghilev had also once applied to Rimsky-Korsakov for advice, and, the story goes, was told to try some other line of work. Diaghilev was a rich young fellow with an itch to dabble in the arts. Vain and hot-tempered but a man of impeccable taste, he decided that if he couldn't be a great artist himself he could encourage and sponsor men who were. In Paris he put on a giant show of Russian art, a series of concerts of Russian music, and the first Parisian performance of Musorgsky's great opera...
...Stravinsky is not poor, but he is not a rich man either. Had Russia joined the International Copyright Union, he might have been. As it is, all of his early, most performed works have been pirated. He owns his Hollywood house, and recently rented another, plus a grand piano, for Soulima and family (his daughter Milene lives near by). A U.S. citizen since 1945, he likes to be known as a "California composer." And when Soviet Russia calls him a renegade "man without a fatherland," Stravinsky snorts: "I am an émigré from the Czars, not the Soviets...
Polio publicity has made polio research dollar-rich, while other less dramatized diseases are dime-poor. In spite of research, however, there is no known way to prevent polio nor to cure it. Addressing the First International Poliomyelitis Conference in Manhattan last week, Dr. Hart E. Van Riper, medical director of the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis, said: "We may be fighting not one disease, but a whole family of slightly related diseases. We do know already that there are several strains of infantile paralysis capable of producing clinical symptoms, but we do not know how closely related these virus...