Word: antone
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...most fearless and most feared music critic of his day (1825-1904), and one of the most justly renowned of all time. Writing for the last 30 years of his career in Die Neue Freie Presse, he had contemporary subjects worthy of his talents: Franz Liszt, Clara Schumann, Anton Rubinstein, Joseph Joachim, Richard Wagner, Johannes Brahms and Giuseppe Verdi. A trained musician and respectable pianist himself, Critic Hanslick was sometimes caustic, but he was always careful. His claim was that "I never criticized a composition that I had not read or played through, both before and after the performance...
Disenchanted. In St. Louis, Magistrate Anton Sestric awarded $500 damages to four-year-old Gary Lee Roberts, another $500 to his parents, for the illusion that was shattered last year when a department-store Santa Claus picked up young Gary Lee, carelessly dropped...
...when an assassin shot at Roosevelt while he was in Miami, and killed Chicago's Mayor Anton Cermak instead, F.D.R. supplied an eyewitness account: "I heard what I thought was a firecracker; then several more ... I looked around and saw Mayor Cermak doubled up ... I called to the chauffeur to stop ... I motioned to have [Cermak] put in the back of the car ... I put my left arm around him and .my hand on his pulse, but I couldn't find any pulse. He slumped forward . . . That trip to the hospital seemed 30 miles long ... I said...
...Chicago's Sanitary District from tree-chopper to chief engineer, he struck up a firm alliance with well-heeled Sewer Contractor Patrick Nash, the other half of the famed Kelly-Nash machine. Chosen mayor by the city council in 1933 to fill the unexpired term of Anton Cermak (killed in Miami in 1933 by an assassin's bullet intended for President-elect Franklin Roosevelt), Kelly became sole Democratic boss of Chicago on Pat Nash's death ("To be a real mayor . . . you've got to be a boss...
...student was one of 1,288 potential and ordained Protestant pastors who have received nontheological instruction in mental health from the Council for Clinical Training. Last week some of them were on hand at Chicago Theological Seminary as the council met to honor its founder, 73-year-old Dr. Anton Boisen...