Word: bel
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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During this stay, in contrast to most of his previous visits to San Clemente, the President did not dine out, go for a drive or even play golf. Early in the week he attended a private party at Budget Director Roy Ash's mansion in Bel Air, a lavish gathering of 150 old California friends and supporters. A few days later he flew into Los Angeles by helicopter to deliver his televised economic address before a sympathetic, if somewhat restrained audience of 1,700 business leaders at the Century Plaza Hotel. The speech, billed as an effort to rally...
...think she represses her fighting instinct too much in the first act, and one mutters, "At last!," when she really lets go in the third. I like the idea ok having her aim her archery bow at Mae's back. I did not care at all for Barbara Bel Geddes' Maggie on Broadway; Miss Ashley's here is as impressive as I have seen...
Died. Sholom Secunda, 79, versatile composer of 1,000 popular songs; of cancer; in Manhattan. Already famed as a cantor, Secunda at the age of eight emigrated to the U.S. from Russia, later graduated from Juilliard. In 1932 he whipped up Bel Mir Bistu Schein while sitting on a New York boardwalk, but together with Lyricist Jacob Jacobs sold the copyright five years later for $30. Soon picked up by a then obscure trio called the Andrews Sisters, the tune went on to gross $3 million by 1961, when the rights reverted to the authors. In the meantime Secunda...
Belfast businessmen demanded an immediate response from Labor Prime Minister Harold Wilson and his new Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, Merlyn Rees. "You are to blame for all this!" yelled an embittered woman as Rees made his first official visit to Bel fast to inspect the damage. Most infuriated were hard-line Ulster Protestants, who feel that the new Labor Government is concentrating too much on a political solution and not enough on a military one. Shouted one irate Protestant as Rees clambered about the debris on Royal Avenue: "Root them out! That's what you must...
...question is Sills herself. Last week she did, in a way that should silence doubters and suggest to everyone else that she will go on singing for at least another ten years. At the New York City Opera, Sills took aim at one of the toughest operas in all bel canto, Vincenzo Bellini's I Puritani. When she was done, Bellini was on his knees, the capacity audience at the New York State Theater on its feet for a long ovation. In post-World War II productions of Puritani, only Maria Callas has achieved anything to equal Sills...