Word: chenoweth
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Orchestra of America, founded two years ago to perform nothing but American music, presented the world premiere of Robert Kurka's Concerto for Marimba. Composer Kurka, Chicago-born son of Czech parents, went to work on his 22-minute concerto in 1956 at the suggestion of Marimbist Vida Chenoweth. completed the piece a year before his death of leukemia in 1957 at 35. Last week's performance, conducted by Richard Korn, featured Marimbist Chenoweth as soloist. A small woman (5 ft. 2 in.), she seemed dwarfed by her instrument-a 6-ft. tablelike frame supporting a graduated series...
...retired admiral (he was President Roosevelt's doctor). Connecticut's Republican Representative Antoni Sadlak, running at large, has been helped by Polish defections from the opposition. Reason: the Democrats failed to nominate a Pole for the race. Colorado's Republican Representative J. Edgar Chenoweth is having trouble because he is blamed for the failure of the G.O.P. Congress to approve an Arkansas River reclamation bill that he himself introduced. Idaho's Democratic Representative Grade Pfost is ahead because she advocates public power at Hell's Canyon...
Colorado's Republican J. Edgar Chenoweth, a member of the subcommittee, was eager for facts & figures on TV's plunging necklines. "In boxing, if a man hits below the belt there is a foul," said Chenoweth, sententiously. "Now where is the line here?" After a thoughtful pause, Witness Gathings allowed it was "a hard matter to say just where the line should be," but hopefully urged that "reasonableness be the guide...
...Fred Waring, Herb Shriner and "rassling." What he didn't like was the "wife-swapping" indicated by the introduction of a TV star (unnamed) which included the information that the star's current wife was "so-and-so." At this news, Colorado's Chenoweth again sat up and took notice. "Shows the actual exchange of wives, does it?" he asked intently. "Is that a common type of program?" Pleased by this alertness, Congressman Bryson nodded solemn assent...
Akron, Ohio: Richard A. Chenoweth '46, 829 Second National Bank Building; Atlanta, Georgia: E. Symthe Gambrell, C. & S. National Bank Building; Birmingham, Alabama; December 27, Jerome A. Cooper '33, Massey Building; Buffalo, New York: December 30, Richard E. Moot '42, 400 Erie County Bank Building...