Word: crafted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...time, see in him a musical contemporary of Richard Wagner. Until recently, the modern public has had little chance to savor the sorrows of Gesualdo, but now a first-class LP has been released on the Sunset label with five singers led by young (28) California Conductor Robert Craft, a protege of Composer Igor Stravinsky. The album is "presented by" Author Aldous Huxley, who has long been fascinated by Gesualdo's violent career, and is now equally fascinated by his madrigals. They are, writes Huxley in his program notes, "a kind of musical miracle, in which seemingly incompatible elements...
...namesake was Vice President in Grover Cleveland's second Administration, and the old campaign posters still decorate Adlai's den in Libertyville. Adlai's birth naturally prompted his Grandfather William O. Davis (a Republican) to pronounce himself delighted at the "launching of this little presidential craft...
Last week, bearded, bushed and suffering from a monumental thirst, he pulled into Tokyo. In his journeying, he was ten years, $35,000 and 30,000 miles from Montreal. He had driven his clumsy craft across the Atlantic Ocean, Europe, the Middle East, Southeast Asia, parts of the Indian Ocean, the South China Sea and the East China Sea. Between him and his goal there are now only 3,100 relatively calm miles of the north Pacific and a 6,000-mile overland trip across Alaska, Canada and the U.S. If his luck holds, he is sure to become...
...Skipper Carlin spent three years writing about his early adventures (Half Safe, William Morrow & Co., Inc. $5) and refitting his ship. He lengthened her sloping superstructure fore and aft, thickened her neoprene waterproofing, beefed up her fuel capacity. Interior steel fittings were replaced with aluminum and plastic until the craft was 600 Ibs. lighter. All told, the Half Safe weighed 3½ tons with a full cargo; every spare inch was filled with equipment−radio, stove, water jugs, oil cans, camera film, cans of food and dirty laundry...
...English Channel and drove across to Calais. They motored over the Simplon Pass into Italy, crossed Yugoslavia and Greece. Outside Zagreb they had their only flat. On through Ankara, across high, arid plateaus, down through the Taurus Mountains and across Syria the Half Safe chugged along. In Iran the craft was mistaken for a Russian tank and got a military escort to the Pakistan border. At twilight in Teheran the Half Safe smacked into a traffic island but suffered only a slight loss of paint...