Word: davids
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...anti-imperialists, the Laborites were against colonial exploitation by private enterprise. Last week Colonial Under Secretary David Rees-Williams banged his fist on a table and growled: "I'm not having any private enterprise interfering with these developments." On the other hand, the government had neither the money nor the experience to go through with its developments unless it had the help of private enterprise...
Khachaturian: Violin Concerto (David Oistrakh, violinist, with the Russian State Symphony Orchestra, Alexander Gauk conducting; Mercury, 10 sides). An excellent recording of an energetic but empty piece, notable because it gives U.S. music lovers a first chance to hear one of the world's greatest living violinists. David Oistrakh, now 40, won an international competition for violinists in Brussels in 1937 (among the judges: Joseph Szigeti), has rarely been far out of Russia since...
...Died. David Wark Griffith, 73, a pioneer film producer (The Birth of a Nation); of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Los Angeles (see CINEMA...
...years he could not find a job in the town he had invented. He clung to the shadows, a bald, eagle-beaked man, sardonic and alone. At parties, he sat drinking quietly, his sharp eyes panning the room for a glimpse of familiar faces, most of them long gone. David Wark Griffith had been The Master, and there was nobody quite like him afterwards...
Tears & Tipoffs. Some of the star reports have not worn well. Reporter Henry Morton Stanley greets Explorer David Livingstone (1871) with his famed question and then, like any cub, confesses that he forgot everything else that was said or happened. Charlie Mitchell battles John L. Sullivan to bare-knuckled exhaustion in 39 rounds in France, but wide-eyed young Arthur Brisbane at the ringside (1888) spends many words on the picturesque surroundings and oddities of the French...