Word: columbias
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...world's most prestigious sailing trophy -against the British challenger Sceptre. Last week, as the final trials of the four 12-meter yachts began in open ocean ten miles off Newport, R.I., the two took over. Cornelius ("Corny") Shields was at the wheel of the spanking-new Columbia for the all-important start and the windward legs, and Emil ("Bus") Mosbacher Jr. was principal skipper of the 19-year...
...Johns Hopkins' President Eisenhower is a key adviser to onetime Columbia University President Eisenhower in the field of education, encouraged Ike to call the 1955 White House Conference on Education, played a part in formulating this year's Administration program to provide U.S. aid to spur scientific education...
Mahler: Symphony No. 2, "Resurrection" (Emilia Cundari, Maureen Forrester, Westminster Choir; New York Philharmonic, conducted by Bruno Walter; Columbia, 2 LPs). An invaluable record of a mammoth mixture of mysticism, romanticism and folklore by a composer often rated alongside history's greatest, conducted by his disciple, close friend and most inspired interpreter...
Stravinsky: The Rite of Spring (New York Philharmonic, conducted by Leonard Bernstein; Columbia). Few top-drawer conductors are younger than Stravinsky's 1913 masterpiece, but Bernstein (b. 1918) is one of them. With all his life to absorb and assimilate the jagged rhythms and excruciating dissonances, he has achieved probably the most exciting performance of this work ever released on records. The blazing, barbaric recorded sound is up to the performance...
...Colonel (Columbia) clothes Danny Kaye, hailed as "the world's greatest clown" by his pressagents and some critics not on the payroll, in a seedy business suit and black Homburg, and tints his hair middle-aged grey. Not a prat in the whole picture falls, and not one double-talked song or double-sung talk issues from the Silly Putty that is Kaye's usual movie face. The result of this hold-down of his celebrated talents is the most appealing and one of the funniest films Danny Kaye has ever made...