Word: cools
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...What Cheer, Iowa and Rough and Ready, Calif. Nearby motels turned away road-tired hordes at the rate of 50 a night. In Washington, D.C., tourists from Calamine, Ark. and Hurricane, Utah scrambled to the monuments and parks, bought foam-rubber hats and doused them with water to get cool. And Washington's Manger Hamilton Hotel, one of thousands of hotels offering family plans (children free), was caught in a dither when a couple from Kentucky showed up with eleven youngsters...
From their first drives, the young pros buckled down confidently to the high-pressure match play, a hole-by-hole, pair-by-pair elimination contest in which the player who takes the most holes wins the round. Ohioan Finsterwald. playing a cool game in 93° heat, won-by two holes over California's Don Whitt, 26, despite a tremendous rally by Whitt that included a startling hole-in-one on the 145-yd. 13th. Hebert, meanwhile, was hitting his approach shots with machine-gun precision, putting straight enough on Dayton's tricky greens to knock off Michigan...
...concert stage, Tureck impressed the critics, but U.S. concertgoers, more accustomed to the Bach credentials of Harpsichordists Wanda Landowska and Ralph Kirkpatrick, were left relatively cool. After a poorly attended concert in Manhattan's Town Hall, the New York Times critic demanded: "Must this great artist go to Europe to be recognized by her own country?" In 1953 she did just that, with such success that she returned in 1954 for four months of solid engagements. Her concerts at London's Albert Hall have sold out months in advance. Twice she has packed the huge Festival Hall...
...shapely daughter of a Genoa streetcar conductor, she joined La Scala three years ago, displayed a talent for the soubrette roles of Rossini and Donizetti and has moved some critics to predict that she will surpass Callas both as actress and singer. Her diction is flawless, her voice cool and clear as crystal. Her artistic ideal is Callas, but she has a reservation: "I still have a heart, Callas...
...members of the Normandie Avenue Methodist Church's congregation remained solidly white, and the 30-odd who went to services regularly were cool to the few Negroes who dropped in. Thirty churchgoers are not very many. In the hope of increasing church membership. Bishop Gerald H. Kennedy of the California-Arizona Methodist Conference decided to give Normandie Avenue a Negro pastor. District Superintendent Ray W. Ragsdale appointed 39-year-old Nelson Burlin Higgins Jr. A descendant of four generations of preachers, Higgins is a husky ex-athlete who went through Louisiana's Roman Catholic Xavier University...