Word: broadcasts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...exhibited his really astonishing capacity for looking bored. The one man who might have rescued the show from tedium, Raymond Massey, was not allowed to do anything but sneer in his role as Prime Minister. To be sure, they all appeared quite handsome in their fine uniforms, which were broadcast in color, but it is still very tempting to suggest that they return to their Cinemascope studios and try again. The only trouble is that they just possibly might...
Down Arms. In Rabat young (28) Prince Regent Moulay Hassan summoned the Cabinet and called his father Ben Youssef on the phone. Next morning the Moroccan state radio broadcast a royal proclamation declaring that Addi ou Bihi had been fired from the governership and that "anyone who continues to obey him will be considered a traitor to Islam." That did it. Two battalions of the royal Moroccan army, plowing through 150 miles of snow-covered mountain roads, found the old hawk-nosed Berber chieftain camped in the cedar forest with only 200 warriors still standing beside him. "Présentez...
...Monaco one morning last week, portending in Riviera folklore the prospect of prosperity, health and character to all children born during rainstorms. In Monaco's pink-walled palace, Princess Caroline Louise Marguerite, 8 lbs. 3 oz., uttered her first wail, set off a chain reaction including a radio broadcast by her nervous father, Prince Rainier III, 33, a 21-gun salute from two ancient cannon, harbor whistles, bonfires, street dancing and a torrent of free champagne. No longer would Monacans worry that Rainier would die without an heir, a catastrophe that might have eventually subjected them to France...
...never granted a formal interview in his life). He was content with the limited kingdom of concert hall and home, and in that kingdom he was as absolute a monarch as ever lived. He was the highest-salaried classical conductor in history (up to $9,000 for a single broadcast). He had little interest in money as such, but proudly insisted musicians should be well paid as a measure of their worth. Though he sometimes acted like a savage, in his heart he hoped that, like Verdi, whom he venerated, he was really "a good...
...with rage, or soften with sympathy for him. And with uncanny and unerring instinct, he knew which would wring a surpassing performance from each of them. Over the years, he played Svengali to hundreds of Trilbys. After listening to a recording of her singing in Toscanini's 1947 broadcast performance of Otello, Soprano Herva Nelli (Desdemona) exclaimed...