Word: ageing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Liszt's great rival, Austrian Piano Virtuoso Sigismond Thalberg, was not, as he claimed to be, the bastard son of nobility (his real parents were Theodore Thalberg and Fortunee Stein, who may even have been married to each other); that Soprano Helen Traubel sliced four years off her age in her autobiography (she was born in 1899, not 1903); that the dates of Wagner's imprisonment for debt in Paris, a little matter omitted in Wagner's own accounts, were from Oct. 28 to Nov. 17, 1840. It was Slonimsky who several years ago told Brazilian Composer...
...fellows, 'Don't wait 20 years. Tell me what you would do if you were in my chair.' " Chuck Percy started climbing to that chair almost from the time he learned to walk. Son of the Bell & Howell office manager, he began selling magazines at the age of five, at New Trier high school he held four jobs at once. At the University of Chicago ('41), he ran a business that grossed $150,000 a year selling supplies to fraternities, and thus was, recalls former Chancellor Robert M. Hutchins, the richest kid who ever worked...
PERCY'S problem was his age...
...developments, such as more rigid plastics and aluminum resistant to chlorine, come on the market, the wave of pool construction is expected to rise rapidly. Says Robert M. Hoffman, publisher of Swimming Pool Age: "In five to ten years pool prices will be reduced to between $1,000 and $1,500, and there will be no limit to who will...
Meanwhile, Jim Stark has managed to make two friends for his cause, Plato (Sal Mineo) and Judy (Natalie Wood). Plato is the child product of the Age of Analysis with slightly psychopathic tendencies which provide for the movie's fast-moving finish. Natalie Wood provides the love interest...