Word: accountancy
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Your Jan. 30 account of Columbia Historian Carlton Hayes once falling from his lecture platform recalls a similar pratfall by famed Harvardian George Lyman Kittredge. Picking himself up from the floor with monumental dignity, he faced the tittering class and said: "This is the first time I have ever descended to the level of my students...
...Brother & sister moved to a seven-room, $30-a-day suite at the faintly seedy Hotel Seymour on West 45th Street. The brother died in 1925. Mary went out seldom after that-usually only around the corner to the ancient, prim Fifth Avenue Bank where she kept a checking account of $1,000,000. In 1927 Mary shut herself into her suite for good...
...private U.S. citizens now spend on doctors, hospitals and drugs. But with the same amount of money, Ewing planned to give more of this kind of care to more people-85% of the nation.* Since the money could not possibly stretch so far, Ewing also wanted an open-end account to draw from general tax funds. He estimated that he might need, after the first year or so, an extra $2 billion a year...
Next to hitting a baseball and keeping a sharp eye on his bank account, Boston's Ted Williams likes fishing best, is especially proud of his reputation as one of the nation's best tiers of fisherman's flies. Last week he was the star flycaster in the Sportsmen's Show at Boston's Mechanics Building. Said Ted of the $5,000-a-week fee he picked up for the performance: "I tell myself, 'People won't even remember you a few years from now. You'll be nobody...
...movie, "Guilty of Treason" is badly acted, confusing, and overly melodramatic. As an account of Cardinal Mindszenty's trial, one can only wonder why the scriptwriters had to bury it under so much superfluous and undocumented plot...