Word: boye
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...small boy: "There was once a merderer with yellow eyes and his wife said to him, If you merder me you will be hung. And he was hung on Tuesday next. Finis...
When Joey Alfidi was forbidden to play any more rock 'n' roll, the boy concentrated on Mozart, Haydn and Beethoven. The longhairs paid off. This week, at the age of seven, Joey took over Manhattan's Carnegie Hall, led the Symphony of the Air (formerly Toscanini's NBC Symphony) in a full-scale program including Mozart's Figaro overture, Beethoven's Fifth and Haydn's Surprise symphonies. His gestures were incisive, particularly in the extreme loud and soft passages; obviously he had learned his scores by heart-no timpanist could miss his cannonball...
...answer is the same for Joey as it has been for child prodigies from Mozart on: parental push. Joey's father, Frank Alfidi, a Yonkers, N.Y. accordion teacher, gave his son a specially built accordion when he was eleven months old. Within a few years the boy was playing kettledrums, the vibraphone, piano and, by some tall stretching, string bass. He went on to play in his school orchestra, where the going was rough. "They're not good enough for him," said Papa. Joey complained that his friends are not interested in his conducting. "There...
Died. Floyd Buckley, 82, Broadway's oldest performing actor (he played the mustached pappy of Mountain Boy Will Stockdale in No Time for Sergeants), who started trouping in 1899 witn Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show; of an aortic aneurism suffered after his 445th straight performance in Sergeants; in New York City...
...Nicholas M. Schenck, 74, one of Hollywood's last tycoons, quit the board of Loew's Inc., world's biggest moviemaker (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studios, some 170 U.S. and foreign theaters, M-G-M records). A Russian immigrant boy who peddled papers, Nick Schenck got in at the start of the picture business, fought his way to the presidency of Loew's in 1927. Last year, as earnings fell and the threat of a stockholders' proxy fight rose, Schenck moved upstairs to board chairman, later honorary chairman...