Word: daland
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...first airplane makers were less than impressed with the intense young engineer-pilot; they even refused his offer to work for nothing. In time he caught on as a $108-a-month draftsman at Huff Daland Airplane Co. of Ogdensburg, N.Y. Later he became a stress analyst at Buffalo's Consolidated Aircraft but was soon politely asked to look for employment elsewhere. He was fired outright by Ford Motor Co.'s aviation division...
...time she was eleven, Carolyn was such a good athlete that she thought she was ready for the Los Angeles Athletic Club's swimming team. Coach Peter Daland told her to go home and wait until she was twelve. Next year she made the team. Daland worked long hours to strengthen her arm and shoulder muscles, get more power into her kick. In 1960, when she was just 14, Carolyn broke the American 1,500-meter record, placed second to Defending Champion Chris von Saltza in the 400-meter freestyle, and earned a trip to the Rome Olympics...
...meter butterfly (2 min. 31.2 sec.) and the 400-meter individual medley (5 min. 25.4 sec.). A swimming nomad, Sharon was born in Rockville Centre, N.Y., started swimming competitively in Florida, moved with her schoolteacher mother to Los Angeles last year to work with Carolyn and Coach Daland. The girls live only six blocks apart, and both attend John Marshall High School, where Carolyn is a senior, Sharon a junior. Up at 6 each morning, the two head for Los Angeles' Olympic Swim Stadium for a three-hour workout: sprints, turns, 60 laps of the 50-meter pool...
...popular Italian and French influences-was rousingly conducted by 29-year-old Thomas Schippers. In the role of the Dutchman (equated by Wagner with both Odysseus and the Wandering Jew) Baritone George London was convincingly demon-ridden, his voice fresh, passionate but controlled. In the comparatively minor role of Daland, the Norse sea captain, Bass Giorgio Tozzi-convincingly costumed in turtleneck sweater, jacket and boots-sang with warm-timbred verve, while Tenor Karl Liebl turned in his best performance of the season as the huntsman Erik. But the real standout of a standout cast was Soprano Leonie Rysanek...