Word: cert
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Critical Ball Game. Last month Seattle started to worry again. On his winter leave Conductor Katims did a grueling. 17-con-cert guest stint with the Houston Symphony. Word leaked out that Houston, which was in the market for a permanent conductor (TIME, Feb. 7), made Katims an offer-$30,000 a year, far more than he gets in Seattle (about $18,000). Seattle prepared itself to be conductorless once more...
...spent his evenings at the Café Certá talking with Breton, Arp. De Chirico and Léger and making composite drawings that they called "exquisite corpses." This was actually an old parlor game. One artist would draw a head, fold the paper and pass it on to the next man, who would draw the body without seeing what had already been done. "We used to fabricate all sorts of monsters." says...
...return for a down payment of a shilling initiation fee and a shilling a week thereafter, they invited their parishioners to 1) become members of their Church Development Society, 2) take a chance on a weekly football pool, and 3) receive free the society's'"Dead Cert Nap Selections" for Saturday's races. Some 500 parishioners joined...