Word: trusts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fond dream of Playwright George Bernard Shaw, popular adoption of a king-size phonetic alphabet, is finally to get some development and promotion. Though G.B.S. left a tidy sum to his proposed ''alphabet trust," institutional beneficiaries under his will fought against relinquishing a farthing to further Shaw's idea (TIME, March 4); even his old friend Lady Astor dismissed it as "ridiculous." Last week's compromise in court: the public trustee of Shaw's estate announced that a maximum of $23,240 will be set aside for the project. A first prize...
...Presley sing Heartbreak Hotel. When Tommy retired from the sea, he bought a guitar and sang for his meals in a succession of sleazy Soho clubs. British Songwriter Lionel Bart heard him, collaborated with him on Rock with the Caveman and helped turn him into a teen-age National Trust...
Screening Process. In Dayton, arrested for bigamy after being married to seven men since her 13th birthday, the last two marriages without benefit of divorce, 23-year-old Cynthia Corraditti offered an explanation: "It was hard to find a guy I could trust...
...artist's illustrations for Dante, published in 1953 (Princeton University; $20). But the new Complete Writings of William Blake (Nonesuch Press-Random House; $12.50) fills a basic need. Most spectacular is a 2-ft.-high volume of Blake's illustrations for the Bible, sponsored by the Blake Trust and distributed in the U.S. (by Philip Duschnes) at a stiff $95 a copy...
...will be rebuilt and spur manufacturing. To cool down recession talk, the New York Federal Reserve Bank made one of its rare public predictions, said that "the period of most severe decline may have been passed," and only "relatively mild" adjustments seem to lie ahead. Manhattan's Guaranty Trust Co. said that chances of a real recession are diminishing...