Word: anderson
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...father) into giving concerts free for the troops in his newly built City College stadium, she has also given her audiences great music year after year for ticket prices as low as 25?. She has given some new composers (George Gershwin) and little-known soloists (Marian Anderson) their first big concert breaks. The stadium's annual Gershwin nights are still its most frequent sellouts...
...debut at the Berkshire Festival, when Serge Koussevitzky had called her "a native Flagstad," Norfolk-born Dorothy Maynor has gone a long way. She has sung with most of the great U.S. orchestras, crisscrossed the U.S. and South America with concert tours. However, like her famed contralto counterpart, Marian Anderson, she has not yet been invited to sing at the Metropolitan Opera...
According to Teacher Willis E. Anderson, the subject of Giuliano arose via a report presented by one of the 29 pupils at the morning program period, which they plan and conduct. Another pupil doubted that the outlaw was a "Robin Hood" and, after investigating the deeds of the original hero of Sherwood Forest, a majority of the class agreed. The rest dissented so vigorously that it was decided to try Giuliano for murder, one of the Italian Government's charges against him. A judge, jury, prosecutor, defense attorney, defendant, etc. were appointed, and the class then took...
This exploration led to the question of how to get the latest news about the case. Said Teacher Anderson: "Inasmuch as we use TIME and LIFE in our classroom, it was not surprising that the nimble-witted young lady who is the district attorney should ask her teacher if he thought TIME might help." Opposing counsel took the cue and got off his own query...
...adviser to all concerned. In preparing the evidence in the Giuliano case the seventh-graders have had to give reports on trial by jury, the origin of English law, habeas corpus, the courts and jury system of Connecticut, and other related subjects. At present, according to Mr. Anderson, the status of the case is as follows...