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Impresario Granz, an indisputably successful music merchant at 34, finds that his richest field of operation is the U.S. From tours last year, his troupes grossed close to $1,000,000. Granz's business philosophy: "If I didn't make $100,000 take-home pay a year, I'd quit." But his current European tour, like last year's, is to "establish 'Jazz at the Philharmonic,' not make money-not right...
...young man in no hurry, but he is going places fast. Ever since, at 28, he first led the NBC Symphony as a hand-picked substitute for Arturo Toscanini (TIME, Jan. 24, 1949). Milan's Cantelli has been persuading audience after audience that his may be the richest new conducting talent in a decade or more...
...undertaken by an American university, Stanford plans to bolster its $40 million endowment (ninth among the nation's private universities) with the construction of a model community on its 9,000-acre "farm." Left to the university by Railroad Tycoon Leland Stanford, the farm includes some of the richest land in northern California. But the terms of the university charter forbid its sale. For the past 50 years almost its only product has been hay. Now university authorities will let individuals rent the land on 99-year leases. They hope to see schools, homes, shopping centers and light industry...
Among the richest and strangest of the sea changes are those that afflict the colors. At 15 ft., red turns pink; at 40 ft., it becomes black. Orange disappears at the same depth. Yellow lasts until about 120 ft., where it begins to turn green. Below 25 ft. color loses about half its value. Once, at 150 ft., Cousteau cut his hand. The blood spurted out?green. At 55 ft. the blood turned dark brown, and back at the surface it was red. Cousteau has included more than 100 excellent underwater photos in the book, about 20 of them...
When Chicago Sun-Times Reporter Ray Brennan got hold of some secret testimony before the Kefauver crime committee, his story was a heavy blow to the Democrats. It cost "Tubbo" ("richest cop in the world") Gilbert the election for sheriff, and it helped defeat the whole Cook County Democratic machine in the 1950 elections, including Senator Scott Lucas, Democratic floor leader. A federal grand jury indicted Brennan, charging that he had impersonated a federal employee (TIME, Sept. 22) to get the secret testimony. The Government's first attempt to prosecute Brennan was thrown out of a Washington federal court...