Word: alonge
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Within 30 seconds, Newshound Van Slycke had his hot tape on the air. KITE then wrapped up the story with another "on-the-spot report" when one of the station's own secretaries just happened along the street a few minutes later as cops collared the fleeing robber and his $455 loot...
...studio in the house and never stopped painting. Says she: "I respected and understood his painting as he did mine. There was never any cause for rivalry." In 1954 Pollock began to drink more and more, paint less and less. On Aug. 11, 1956, zooming along a Long Island highway, he smashed his convertible into an embankment and died...
...harsh, full of sharp emotional edges. Composer Barraud got a polite hearing but sent his audience delving into their programs in search of the unifying idea the music seemed to lack. CJ Peter Mennin's Piano Concerto, performed in Manhattan by the Cleveland Orchestra, which commissioned the work, along with eight others, to celebrate its 40th anniversary. The work by 34-year-old Juilliard Teacher Mennin was driving, gusty, brilliantly animated, but it often seemed more like an exercise in pure virtuosity than a statement of musical intent...
...Jackson to help them organize an English-speaking Baptist church in Tokyo. The Jacksonian result: a whirlwind of preaching, fund-raising and organizing, topped by ground-breaking ceremonies with a brass band from the U.S.A.F.'s 41st Air Division. For the full-scale Tokyo revival Jackson is organizing along with the new church, he plans to spend $200,000 in advertising and to round up big-name speakers, including Billy Graham. "We want the best of everything on this program," says Missionary Jackson. "After all, it's the biggest city in the world, and the Lord deserves...
...pail, Silky is what stablemen call a "good doer." He eats like a horse. But the feed never turns to fat; it only stokes Silky's fires. He burns it up according to the dictates of his own four-footed psyche; his jockey is only along for the ride. He breaks from the gate like a common sprinter, races 70 yds., then lags as if his safety valve had popped. Wags in the press box contend that he is a ham who hates to leave the grandstand. And it is a heart-stopping fact to bettors that he begins...