Word: careers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Richter-Haaser's big-time career at the piano began at a time when many a lesser pianist is already beginning to fade from sight. The son of a carpenter (and amateur musician), he studied piano at the Dresden Music School, at 18 started to play concerts all over Germany. A decade later World War II interrupted his career. Assigned to an antiaircraft unit, he did not touch a piano for seven years, except to play in U.S. military hospitals as a P.W. at war's end. When he resumed his piano career in 1946, at 34, after...
...adolescent romantic yearnings in Act I, he does so in Ritchard's version while holding on to a pair of women's drawers draped across a clothesline full of underthings. At the act's end, when Figaro mockingly congratulates Cherubino on his future military career, he punctuates the aria Non più andrai with a solid boot to the rump. But Ritchard's worst sin, according to the purist critics, was turning the Countess from a person of "breeding and dignity" into a delightfully sprightly lady with an occasionally roving...
...play that pleased both Olivier and Producer David Susskind. In the process, they lost some of the novel's dark energy; they never adequately explained how a respectable British stockbroker named Charles Strickland (modeled on famed Painter Paul Gauguin) could abandon wife and family for a new career as an artist-or why, after he seduced Blanche Stroeve (Jessica Tandy), wife of his best friend (Hume Cronyn), Blanche later turned to suicide. But the play's bright scenes, brilliantly colored, were as bold and carefully constructed as the Gauguin masterpieces they were meant to match. Strickland...
...then in 5½ seconds it was all over." After that, the successful firing of another Juno three months later was an anticlimax for the film. But from drawing board until a Juno actually got into orbit. Biography was a blunt and forceful epitaph for the Army's career in space. The week before Missile went on the air, reported Murrow, the President transferred Juno's creators and all their future projects to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration...
Last week, run down at last by dogged gumshoeing, Mr. Grey went to trial in Manhattan's General Sessions Court on charges of tampering with boxing. He had made a career of slipping the law's punches. Back in 1930 he had served less than a year for manslaughter, but over the years he had beaten five raps for murder. At 55, boxing's strong arm looked like a tired old man. His face was drawn, and he was suffering from diabetes. Even elevator shoes failed to give his 5-ft. 8-in. figure any stature...