Word: adrian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Ward Howell weeded the list down to six applicants, three of whom were interviewed by the symphony board. Last week Ward Howell's ideal org man of music was on his way to the West Coast. His name: George Adrian Kuyper, longtime manager of the Chicago Symphony, a sometime English instructor (University of Michigan), associate manager of the Boston Symphony and onetime amateur violinist. Kuyper, it turned out, was 60-ten years above the recommended...
Died. Gilbert Adrian, 56, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's head dressmaker for a dozen years, husband of Hollywood's first Oscar-winning actress, Janet Gaynor (Seventh Heaven); of a stroke; in Hollywood. For more than a decade Adrian set the pace for women's fashions across the U.S. and even to Paris, made Jean Harlow, Katherine Hepburn and Norma Shearer look like haute couture models, put Greta Garbo in sequined slacks. Lynn Fontanne in a white organdy bow that started a national fad, released Joan Crawford from a movie prison in a little basic black dress that...
...least $3,000,000 in sales of the works of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, creator of Holmes. But neither Doyle nor his heirs ever got so much as a ruble out of the Soviet sales. A Moscow city court last year tossed out a $180,000 suit brought by Adrian Conan Doyle, Sir Arthur's only surviving son, as a claim for the pirating of his father's writing. Three judges of the Soviet Supreme Court heard the case on appeal last week, decided that Sir Arthur has no rights under Soviet copyright law, which provides...
Died. Carl Adrian Wettach, 79, tragicomic, Swiss-born circus clown known as "Crock," who elevated pantomime to an art by playing a tiny fiddle with cotton gloves, moving a piano to a stool rather than stool to piano, shrugged off the world's perplexities with his famed exclamations, "Pourquoi?" (why?) and "Sans blague?" (no kidding?); of a heart attack; in Imperia, Italy...
Other citations were given to Oxford and Cambridge Universities. Accepted by Baron Edgar Douglas Adrian, master of Trinity College, the award to Cambridge declared, "During the last hundred years, Cambridge has veered toward science. Good fortune this for the harsh world of today...