Word: stringing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When they came clattering into town after town in two dusty Mercedes, a Renault and a Citroen, the visitors from America looked more like a wandering minstrel show than a first-class string quartet. The cars sagged with musical scores and books, the roofs were piled high with luggage. Crammed in with the musicians and wives were eight children of assorted ages. But when they turned up in white tie and tails to play at the Tel Aviv Museum last week, the members of Chicago's Fine Arts Quartet won the same kind of tumultuous reception they have encountered...
...share. After taxes and brokers' fees, he cleared a neat $3,800,000. He still owns 33-5% of the stock, which was listed last week on the New York Stock Exchange at $46.50 a share. In his philanthropy, Black shows no less financial hustle. The one string he attached to his Columbia gift is a stipulation that the Parkinson's Disease Foundation get all the interest on the $5,000,000 until Columbia gets to work on the new medical building. Since delay means a sizable loss to Columbia (at least $175,000 yearly), the university hopes...
Died. Ada Everleigh, 93, regal co-madam (with her late sister, Minna) of Chicago's lavish turn-of-the-century bordello, the Everleigh Club, which boasted a bevy of demure girls, string music, perfume-squirting fountains and a 1,000-volume library at a price of $100 for a "mild evening," was finally closed by severe reformers in 1911, sending the millionaire sisters off to retirement in Manhattan with a golden piano and a few other mementos of the good old glittering days; in Chicago...
Columbia led at halftime, 39 to 25, with Melton and Auzenbergs having contributed 25. In the second half, the Lions built up a 28-point margin before coach Archie Oldham mercifully put in his reserve unit. The Crimson's second string, led by Bill Danner and Greg Loser, gained 11 points back in the final ten minutes, but the damage had been done...
Internal Matter. In Miami, freed of a petty larceny charge for eating candy, strawberries, bananas, string beans and a package of sugar-coated ham while shopping in a supermarket, Mrs. Marie Schor said indignantly, "Why, I've been eating there for more than five years...