Word: priceless
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Thornton, British-born Benjamin Henry Latrobe (responsible for the handsome east fagade), and Boston's Charles Bulfinch (chief restorer of the Capitol after the British burned it in 1814). Said Architect Rich: "A reproduction is worth only the price it took to build it. An original is priceless...
...mixture of big money and priceless glamour makes tricky chemistry. Last February Managers Carol Fox and Lawrence V. Kelly, both 29, and Artistic Director Nicola Rescigno tangled in a struggle for power-and Chicago's other musical movers and shakers joined in behind the scenes. Last week, after minuets of mediation, largos of litigation and concertos of comment, the Lyric was ordered into receivership (the receiver: Chicago Bar Association President Augustine J. Bowe). with its assets and liabilities probably to be assigned to a new corporation called Opera Theater Association, heavily backed by Carol Fox's friends...
...ever since the beginning of World War I. According to World War II Chief of Staff George Marshall, the cracking of the famed Japanese "purple" code, for which Friedman was principally responsible, led to vital foreknowledge of Hitler's intentions in Europe and gave the U.S. Navy a priceless advantage in intelligence that led to such critical victories as Coral Sea, Midway and subsequent bold carrier strikes. Friedman himself gently declines to take so much credit. "There is no single person," he once said, "to whom the major share of credit should go. It represents an achievement...
...through an eight-course meal (including caviar, crabmeat, mushrooms, capers and sturgeon), rose repeatedly to respond to vodka toasts. Three hours after he had arrived, he retrieved his cap with dignity from under a picture of Stalin and walked firmly down the gangway, carrying himself like a piece of priceless porcelain and bearing farewell gifts of caviar and whale's teeth. "Don't bother our distinguished guest," said genial Host Solianik to pier-side reporters. "He's still enjoying the pleasures of the table...
HISTORIAN Samuel Flagg Bemis' John Quincy Adams and The Union (see BOOKS) is the first major biographical work resulting from unrestricted access to the Adams Papers, currently being edited under a ten-year grant of $250,000 from TIME Inc. (TIME. Oct. 25, 1954). The vast and priceless collection of writings by Presidents John Adams and John Quincy Adams and Diplomat Charles Francis Adams is being microfilmed for circulation to libraries, private and public, and eventually will appear in 34 volumes of diary, 12 to 15 volumes of family correspondence and an even greater number, still unestimated. of general...