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...singer and songwriter, John Rich??is a unique talent. But as a rogue, huckster and progressive, he is extraordinary. It was Rich who helped create the Muzik Mafia, a loose collective of musical outcasts deemed too rock, too rough or just too weird by the famously conservative executives on Nashville's Music Row. It was Rich, along with partner Big Kenny Alphin, who came up with the Mafia acronym (Musically Artistic Friends in Alliance) and slogan ("Music without prejudice") and showed the group members how to turn their individuality into hits, co-writing Gretchen Wilson's underclass anthem Redneck Woman...
...world is such that the rich???those with very large assets?do not actually pay the confiscatory top rates. The rich can arrange matters so that the money rolls in to them in forms that are partly or entirely sheltered from income tax, such as capital gains, royalties from oil properties, interest from tax-exempt municipal bonds. In 1961 a total of 306 U.S. taxpayers filed returns showing an adjusted gross income of $1,000,000 or more. Their adjusted gross income added up to $611,273,000, their total income tax to $280,525,000, or an average...
...early wanderings took him along the "pumpkin show" circuit, from Tulsa to Lewiston, Idaho. Race meetings lasted one or two days, and purses were a piddling $100. About 30 vagabond horsemen roamed this circuit, and none ever got rich???or starved?mainly because of a secret mutual-assistance pact that no matter who won a race everybody with a horse in it shared equally in the purse...
...Georgetown. Mrs. Macy was well known in Manhattan cafe society, and some of Harry's old friends of WPA days began mumbling that Harry was deserting them in favor of glitter and wealth. But long before he met his present wife, Hopkins had had many friends among the rich???the Whitneys, the Harrimans, the Forrestals, the Stettiniuses, the John Hertzes?moving as effortlessly in their circles as he once did among the poor of Manhattan's lower east side. Bernard Baruch's wedding present to the Hopkinses was a sumptuous dinner for 50 at Washington's Carlton Hotel? a fairly...
Richard Watson very properly married Celinda. Twelve years later the happy couple, their four children, the engineer, Robledo?all now extremely rich???returned to Paris on a visit. The visit brought up memories of Elena. Robledo wondered what could have become of her?and found her by accident, on the streets of Montmartre, a mere rag of a woman, with everything gone but a taste for good whiskey. So that was the end of Elena, and a very suitable...
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