Word: cincinnati
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...National League Milwaukee 95 59 .614 St. Louis 87 67 .565 8 Brooklyn 84 70 .545 11 Cincinnati 80 74 .519 15 Philadelphia 77 77 .500 18 New York 69 85 .448 26 Chicago 62 92 .403 33 Pittsburg...
Optimistically, Brown and Editor Walter M. Mason hope that the Golden Rule Series will help curb juvenile delinquency by exposing pupils to their eleven themes. So far, at least, the children are meeting them halfway. In Cincinnati public schools, which bought sets of books for their fourth, fifth, and sixth grades, boys and girls are even reading the Modern McGuffey on their own time. The favorable reaction of one fifth-grade girl: "Things that are funny really are funny, and things that are serious really are serious...
...three years since he joined the paper, Miller has sold his Enquirer sweepings to the Chronicle and three other dailies, two of which-the Erie (Pa.) Times and the Cincinnati Times-Star-have dropped him. The third, the New Orleans Item, deleted the Nixon item from Miller's copy. Memo-Merchant Miller uses the same raw material to tape-record 30-second hotspots that are used around the clock by 15 radio stations (top price: $50 weekly). Now Miller has filmed his first TV keyhole show (which he hopes to sell to WXEX in Richmond, Va.), and will sign...
Since then, Conductor Johnson has continued to plug modern music, plus rarely performed classical programs, with the same zeal in Fish Creek that he shows in Cincinnati. Once, after receiving a note from a concertgoer scolding him for playing Bartok, he took the man to lunch, gradually converted him-as he converted many of his audiences. But he is still disturbed by the opposition he occasionally encounters. "The tragedy of the contemporary music scene is people's lack of humility in the presence of art. The public has become such an authority; right away it's good...
...Grass. A native of Wisconsin, Johnson organized his first orchestra when he was 13 ("If no one is going to give you an orchestra, you have to go out and make one"). By the time he took over the Cincinnati in 1947, he had formed half a dozen of. his own orchestras, had also put in a teaching stint at the University of Michigan. To put together his Fish Creek outfit he raided virtually every major orchestra in the U.S. In five seasons Johnson has conducted no fewer than 15 world premieres and eleven U.S. premieres...