Word: breakfast
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Meanwhile Joey was getting ready for the big time. An Italian conductor named Gino Lombardi discovered his conducting talent, started training him, e.g., records and scores every day before breakfast. After Joey shared programs in Miami and Long Beach, N.Y.. father Alfidi hired the Symphony of the Air and Carnegie Hall at a total cost of $10,000. Papa is sure Joey will become a great conductor. But if not, there is his baby brother, who, says Papa, already hums the first bars of Beethoven's Fifth at the age of two years...
...Formosa, Nationalist China's austere President Chiang Kaishek, for the moment at least a bystander to history, turned 70, still dreamed of recapturing the Chinese mainland, still showed no signs that the Red Chinese newspapers he reads each morning at breakfast are spoiling his appetite...
...inherent appeal of its chief character and the tremendous vivacity and skill of the gal who plays her. Everybody enjoys a lovable lunatic, and Rosalind Russell is a delight as the kindhearted madwoman of Beekman Place, bringing up her small nephew in a world of sidecars for breakfast, living herself in sumptuous dishabille, now marrying, now dispensing with marriage, now rescuing her nephew from a stuffy brand...
...method, the would-be writer is assigned a cell furnished with an army bed, lamp, table and typewriter in one of the barracks. He is expected to cut himself off from all social contact with the outside world: Lowney is adamant on "dedication." Reveille sounds for 5:30 a.m. breakfast, and then the writers are sent to their cells and typewriters. Afternoons are devoted to physical culture, exercises, or work on the "rock pile"-carting bricks or laying walks. Visitors are barred, and Lowney once heaved bricks at a trio of them. Liquor and women are also banned...
Late yesterday afternoon workmen were called in and the decision made not to serve either last night's dinner or this morning's breakfast while the repairs were being made...