Word: cr
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When Hank Knight first persuaded Ravinia's reluctant executive committee to add a seventh week to the six-week season, they dubiously called it "crème de la crème." The first concert, with the Pro Arte Quartet, drew only 559 fans, but even that was 200 more than they expected. Since then things have picked up. His biggest triumph came last year when he got Pianist Artur Rubinstein, Violinist Jascha Heifetz and Cellist Gregor Piatigorsky to play together, and packed Ravinia with a record-breaking 10,000 fans (TIME...
...fashionable West End, a guest last week could choose from a menu of caviar, turtle soup, sole bonne femme, roast duck with wine sauce and pineapple, whole baby chickens fried in butter with mushrooms, asparagus in butter sauce, feathery soufflés aflame with brandy, strawberries, peaches in kirsch, crêpes suzette en liqueurs, petits fours. "And," said Mario, "you can have it all if you like." To encourage the dollar tourist trade, Britain's government had lifted the wartime limit of five shillings (70? U.S.) per meal...
With his vigorous news pages, Dana ran blistering editorials against Boss Tweed, the Crédit Mobilier and the Whisky Ring. Yet the Sun also sentimentally assured eight-year-old Virginia O'Hanlon, "Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus...