Word: ades
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Walton: Viola Concerto (William Primrose; Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Sir Malcolm Sargent; Columbia). A work which, after Façade, is William Walton's most renowned, makes its tardy LP debut (it was written in 1929). Although its texture is slightly richer than modern tastes approve, this is a strong composition, ranging from pensive to jazzy to robust...
...oldtimers gave the new arrival a double-edged welcome. In full-page ads, Macy's hospitably showed an opening-day mob scene in front of the new Ohrbach's façade, then slyly suggested: "If you live through this, you're ready for Macy's." When spry old (69) Founder Nathan M. Ohrbach (rhymes with floor tack) unlocked the plate-glass doors, he barely got out of the way in time before the mob rushed in. By closing, 100,000 people had jammed into the new store, spent more than...
...what sort of psychological makeup they had before they developed the disease. They soon found that the average victim of breast or prostate cancer was unable to express such basic drives as anger, aggressiveness, or sexual impulses, suffered from an inner turmoil "covered over by a façade of pleasantness...
...five alternates, including re-appointments for James J. Wadsworth, brother-in-law of Missouri's Senator Stuart Symington, and Mrs. Oswald Lord, 1952 co-chairman of the Citizens for Eisenhower. The three new alternates: Wright Francis Morrow, 61, wealthy Houston lawyer who backed the Texas Democrats for Eisenhower; Ade M. Johnson, 58, director of labor and industry in the state of Washington; Roger Williams Straus, 62, a New York industrialist (American Smelting & Refining Co.) and co-founder of the National Conference of Christians and Jews...
Fronia plunged into publishing with her usual gusto, dividing her time between bank and paper. She brightened up Ironton's Center Street by converting one of her buildings into a Courier plant, with a shiny new chrome-and-glass façade. Circulation of the paper grew to 7,576, not far behind its afternoon rival, the 28-year-old Ironton Tribune (circ. 9,280). But Publisher Sexton proved to be an erratic newswoman. She ran through a series of editors, handed down unpredictable edicts that made the Courier an erratic paper, e.g., no local news on Page...