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Much of the success of the production is due to Musical Director Landon Young. He plays the piano, conducts the instruments, singers, and chorus, hums through comb-and-tissue-paper, and coordinates the other unlikely effects that intersperse the opera. The stage direction by Margaret Fairbank is usually enlivening, although there are some leaden moments. There is, however, a good deal of tension built up when the rain comes and the ranchers dance...

Author: By Stephen Addiss, | Title: A Tree On The Plains | 2/28/1957 | See Source »

...were rounded up. He had gone back alone to the scene of the arrest next morning in an open Land Rover. The car had been found deserted on a side street. Lieut. Moorhouse was not seen again. That night Commanding General Sir Hugh Stockwell sent out search parties to comb every house in the district, but they found no sign of the young lieutenant. Francis Moorhouse's first instinct was to seize a telephone and put in a direct call to Egypt's Strongman Gamal Abdel Nasser. It failed to get through...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: The Kidnaped Lieutenant | 1/7/1957 | See Source »

Newly elected trustees on the high-level board are Chancellor Harvie Brans-comb of Vanderbilt University and President James R. Killian, Jr. of M.I.T. They will fill vacancies created by the retirement from university presidencies of Oliver C. Carmichael of the University of Alabama and Harold W. Dodds of Princeton...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Pusey Chosen New Director Of Carnegie | 12/17/1956 | See Source »

...bent; her hips were bent and frozen. Last year, aged 25, Angelina was taken to the arthritis clinic at Manhattan's superbly equipped Hospital for Special Surgery. There she scored near zero on the ADL (activities of daily living) test: she could not walk, dress or feed herself, comb her hair, or go to the bathroom alone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Those Aching Joints | 11/5/1956 | See Source »

Last week Angelina was taking hesitant steps on her crutches. With a special long-handled comb she could do her own hair; with a tonglike device she pulled on her socks, and she scored a notable ADL victory when she worked a slip over her head. With a hand sewing machine (the exercise of working it is good for her), Angelina can almost be selfsupporting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Those Aching Joints | 11/5/1956 | See Source »

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