Word: tree
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Third Day shows the grey dawn of the first landscape, with the first signs of life emerging from primordial chaos. Says Kovarsky: "This tree has the twist of a motherly woman. The cloud is the symbol of rain. The red seed, poppy seed, is a symbol of growth. The sun-light...
Frightened by the uproar, Fenton had meanwhile buried the jewels beneath a palm tree on a lonely beach. Questioned, he claimed steadfastly that he had hardly known the vacationers, said that as far as he remembered Mrs. Hallock had never displayed any jewelry more flamboyant than a trivial topaz ring. As Mrs. Hoffman tore Fenton's story to shreds, police grilled Waiter Rios, whose share of the loot had been only $200 in cash. Rios admitted that Fenton had hired him to help rob the couple. On the 17th day Fenton lost his nerve; news had arrived that...
...cannot get long-term loans through normal bank channels. "What we're looking for," says one Prudential executive, "is the nice little company making a nice little product in Bucyrus, Ohio." The Pru has found plenty of them. Among the loans: $200,000 to help reforest a Florida tree farm, $750,000 to a Nashville religious-book company, $54,000 to Kansas City's Papec Machine Co., makers of agricultural appliances, another $120,000 to six El Dorado (Ark.) doctors who convinced the Pru that their town needed a medical center...
Patience and Prudence Mclntyre, 14 and 11 years old respectively, are just like most girls their age except that they have a daddy who is a pianist-songwriter (The Money Tree) and full of bright ideas. One day Daddy-Mark Mclntyre-took them over to a recording studio and played his arrangement of the old Lee David-Billy Rose heart-thumper, Tonight You Belong to Me, while the girls cut a record as a birthday gift for Grandmother. When a musical friend of the family heard the record, "she flipped," and when Daddy submitted the disk to Liberty Records, President...
However their success came about, Patience and Prudence are sitting pretty under the money tree, will gross some $100,000 this year on records alone (Liberty Records, which zoomed into the big time on the unexpected success of Julie London's Cry Me a River, is looking to the sisters for a big share of its 1957 profits). Mclntyre has turned down Las Vegas, movie and TV offers for the girls-except for one from Perry Como. Rumors were about that P. & P. were grown women whose voices had been trick-recorded, and Daddy wanted to show...