Word: alberts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first public appearance as a ballad singer, Miss Grace Albert gave an encore-drawing recital of American and English folk music yesterday afternoon before a rain-soaked but none the less enthusiastic audience in the Poetry Room of Widener Library...
...Miss Albert's selections included well-known and representative folk music from all parts of the United States, in addition to such staple English ballads as 'Lord Randall." Her renditions of the western ballad, "The Cowboy Lament" and John Jacob Niles' arrangement of "I Wonder" met loud applause from her listeners...
Associated in recent years with radio and dramatic shows in New York City, Miss Albert first became interested in folk music as a result of her part seven years ago in the Broadway production "The Boys from Syracuse," which included Burl Ives in its cast. She will make her New York debut in her new career on January...
Sudden Change. This last item represented a sudden and major change in Administration policy. Secretary of State Marshall has been insisting that the U.S. take on one job at a time and that the first job is Western Europe. For that reason he suppressed Lieut. General Albert Wedemeyer's report on the critical condition of China (TIME, Oct. 20). Last week, largely at the insistence of Senator Arthur Vandenberg, Marshall added China to the tag end of the program...
...witness from the microphone. The committee then noted evidence of Communist allegiance (including photostats identified as their Communist Party membership cards) ; started the contempt proceedings rolling through the full committee to Speaker Joe Martin. By the third day they had cited eight: Writers John Howard Lawson, Alvah Bessie, Albert Maltz, Dalton Trumbo, Samuel Ornitz, Director Edward Dmytryk, Producer Adrian Scott, Writer-Director Herbert Biberman...