Word: worth
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cops arrested Duarte, 35, who identified himself as one of three Cubans robbed last October at Fort Worth of $240,000 which they said Prio had given them to buy arms. Duarte, Manheim and two alleged accomplices were booked for illegal possession of bombs. In Miami, Prio denied any connection with the arms dump or the plot. In Havana, Batista arrested ten retired naval officers for questioning...
...firmly resolved: "They'll never hold a benefit for me." He pursued the dollar with the same single-mindedness that brought him two world championships-the welterweight (147 Ibs.) and middleweight (160 Ibs.) titles-and carried him through 137 professional fights with only three defeats. By last week, worth an estimated $300,000 from shrewd investments (real estate, a bar, a dry-cleaning establishment), he knew that the time had come to quit. Said Sugar Ray, in a flowery farewell to the ring: "I do not feel I can any longer give the public my best as they have...
They could all find something worth looking at: there were seven special exhibits going at once. On the ground floor were a folk costume show and a comprehensive display of "The Weird"-no etchings, drawings and lithographs from the gruesome isth century genii of Albrecht Diirer to the willowy 20th century witches of Charles Addams ("May I borrow a cup of cyanide?"). Upstairs were other shows: the Metropolitan's 30 famed Rembrandts, a collection of miniature objects, earliest American landscapes, contemporary American watercolors, drawings and prints...
...coat), Utah's Mink Rancher David W. Henderson, president of the National Board of Fur Farm Organizations, thought the market was off to a good start. One fillip came from an unexpected source. Said Henderson, whose beady-eyed little Topaze breeders (see cut) are worth up to $600 apiece: "If anything, the Washington mink scandals helped the market by bringing the idea of mink coats more & more before the public." In Chicago,, the Miller Fur Co. was doing a booming business renting out mink coats at $50 a night. Said a harried salesman in Manhattan's Bergdorf Goodman...
...when Silent Cinemactress Janet Gaynor won Hollywood's first Academy Award for her acting in Seventh Heaven, a gold-plated Oscar statuette was worth about $150. The value of most gewgaws has risen since then, but Oscars have outstripped them all. Hollywood publicists have long since discovered that these "noncommercial" citations for artistic merit have a specific box-office value: a mere Oscar nomination can add about $100,000 to a movie's gross. An actual award, if well exploited, may be worth...