Word: cincinnati
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Candidate Eisenhower, before long had a chair to put his foot on and a phone to grasp. When the Nixon fund furor broke, it was Brownell who took charge. He talked to some of the wisest heads in the party, studied the legal implications of the fund, flew to Cincinnati to see Eisenhower. He boarded the campaign train one night unseen by the press, spent several hours with Eisenhower, advised him to stick with Dick Nixon (although some of Nixon's friends were mistakenly convinced at the time that Brownell had advised Ike to dump Nixon). Before dawn...
...Cincinnati last week showed the U.S. how to put on a new opera in English for operatic pin money. With a budget of $9,000 (mostly for sets, etc.) and a cast of home-town talent, townsmen rolled up their sleeves and mounted a three-acter by U.S. Composer Vittorio Giannini, based on Shakespeare's Taming of the Shrew...
Giannini's Shrew was a joint enterprise for the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra and the city's Music-Drama Guild, whose singers sang without pay. Shrew Katharina was sung by Dorothy Short, an insurance agent, Husband Petruchio by Robert Kircher, a professional trombone player. "The important thing," said Symphony Conductor Thor Johnson, "was to give all segments of the community a chance to take part...
...text was adapted by one of Giannini's pupils at the Juilliard School of Music, and nearly everybody was able to keep up with the lines, despite the heavy screen of sound thrown up by the full (90 pieces) Cincinnati Symphony. Composer Giannini was called to the stage for "the most tremendous ovation I ever...
...Cincinnati 78, Ohio...