Word: concertized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Margaret Truman's "vacation" back home in Missouri turned out to be a summer of heavy voice study. Radio and concert work had been offered her, but she was setting her sights higher: opera. Bess Wallace Truman's daughter had already picked a stage name with the idea of not trading on her father's reputation, though doubtless nobody would be fooled. The posters would advertise "Margaret Wallace...
...concert with many other Americans, allow me to utter a hearty "aye" to the sentiments expressed by Lieut. Paul C Hawkins in his letter published in the July 29 issue...
...being a tightwad, but 53% say they are certainly extravagant. Most of them live in New York City (alone, with families, roommates, husbands)-pursue a variety of hobbies from "catching up on sleep," collecting sea shells and antique jewelery, to studying economics-see a movie, a play, a concert apiece about once a month-wear an evening dress about once a year, spectacles part of the time. Altogether they own a total of five cats, three dogs and a horse. They smoke steadily (a pack of cigarettes a day), and only one is a teetotaler...
...Concert of Nations (Thurs. 11:30 p.m., NBC). The NBC Symphony in a program of Polish music, including the overture to Stanislaw Moniuszko's Halka; Dr. Frank Black conducting...
Putting two Brahms concertos on one program started as a gag last winter between Arrau and Conductor Dimitri Mitropoulos, who directed the Robin Hood Dell Orchestra for the concert last week. At intermission, Arrau gulped down gobs of milk, afterwards wolfed a big steak. Said he: "It turned out not just a joke." This week, after hopping up to the Berkshires for a concert at Tanglewood, and to Manhattan for a Lewisohn Stadium appearance, he will take his first vacation in five years...