Word: concertized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Before war's end, the chorus, traveling in their own C-54, gave nearly 1,500 concerts for U.S. troops throughout the Pacific. After V-J day, they decided to stay together as civilians. Last week they gave their first Carnegie Hall concert in Manhattan...
Sellout. Far & away the biggest-and most worrisome-event in Harry Truman's holiday week was a concert at Constitution Hall. The artist: Soprano Margaret Truman. In all paternal pride, the President wanted his daughter's Washington debut to be an unspoiled success-and hers alone. He did his best to keep out of the spotlight...
Socially, the concert was dazzling. The hall, for the first time this season, was a sellout. But Washington critics were tougher than any others have been with the President's daughter. "Most disappointing," said the Post. Said the Daily News: "Margaret's not equipped for serious concert work." Next day, interviewed on the radio by Secretary of the Treasury Snyder's daughter, Drucie, Margaret Truman reported: "Poor Daddy was sitting there quite nervous." But after the first few numbers, she said, he calmed down and started beaming...
...world's busiest scientist, the U.S. Government, has more arms than a Hindu goddess. Last week President Truman set up a central committee (the Interdepartmental Committee for Scientific Research and Development) to make all the scientific arms work in concert. Chairman is John R. Steelman, the President's assistant, who will keep the White House informed on scientific doings. Government agencies concerned with science (from Agriculture to Veterans Administration) will supply one member each to sit on the committee. The principal duties of the committee: to coordinate federal research, recommend new projects, keep in touch with non-Government...
...Ferro" and Pia have been singing and murmuring to each other ever since. Married in 1941, they delighted Italy and South America with their Tosca, La Boheme and Werther, but the U.S. had only heard them sing together in concert. They ended each concert with the Duet of the Cherries from the first opera they had sung together in Palermo...