Word: corking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Cents, W. H. Prosser's Nine to Five, Lawrence Schoonover's The Quick Brown Fox, are all business novels by authors who at one time or another have been in business themselves. Thus in Executive Suite, Author Cameron Hawley, a longtime executive of Armstrong Cork Co., can expertly detail for his readers the struggle to find a new president in a big corporation. Later, in Cash McCall, he attempts to explain the philosophy that drives men to seek wealth and power. Argues Hero McCall: "We maintain that the very foundation of our way of life is what...
...philatelists filling the last empty space in a series of cherished stamps, physicists have now found the last subatomic particle that is needed to make the universe neatly and electrically symmetrical. The Radiation Laboratory of the University of California announced last week that a team of physicists (Drs. Bruce Cork, Glen Lambertson, Oreste Piccioni, William Wenzel) has identified the antineutron, which differs from ordinary neutrons in the opposite direction of its magnetic field...
When American musicians fly to Europe, they usually touch down in Ireland as many tourists do, take on a few drams of Paddy's at Shannon and travel on. But when the Boston Symphony set up its five-week tour, it scheduled its first foreign concert in Cork...
...orchestra brought along one of its trustees, Boston Insurance Broker Michael T. Kelleher. Before the concert began last week in the 1,500-seat Savoy Theater, Mike Kelleher drew cheers when he spoke of his father who had emigrated to the U.S. from County Cork. Then the orchestra set its gesture to music, opened its program with U.S. Composer Leroy Anderson's Irish Suite, a collection of slick arrangements of Irish tunes...
...wife had died in Paris three days before) received a ten-minute ovation. Next day, before a top-drawer audience in Dublin, the ovation was repeated. But the Irish Times critic was totally unmoved by the sentimentality of the occasion. "The orchestra is very accomplished," he wrote, after the Cork concert. "It plays with great precision and a fine, sensitive response to the conductor's expressive beat. The accomplishment, however, is mainly technical . . . The Sorcerer's Apprentice promised well, but soon fell into machined precision, like those great American cars which speed along comfortably...