Word: davises
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In recent years, the missions concentrated on training more and more native clergy to take over the churches' work. Last week this gradual process was violently interrupted by the savage explosion of riot and terror (see FOREIGN NEWS) that forced most U.S. missionaries, on the urging of the State...
His performances of even so familiar a score as Mozart's Eine kleine Nachtmusik often have the effect of surprise-not because of any personal eccentricities, but because Davis has the gift of illuminating faded colors and of silhouetting the thrust of familiar line and phrase.
Davis started his musical career playing clarinet in the school band near home in Weybridge, Surrey. Later he played in the band of the Household Cavalry, soon knew he wanted to be a conductor: "I suppose you can only compare it with a religious conversion. Suddenly the spirit reveals itself...
Conductor Davis, who will make his first appearance in the U.S. next December with the Minneapolis Symphony, seems to lack only one major podium qualification: a king-sized ego. Not long ago, at the completion of a concert in London's Royal Festival Hall, Davis won an ovation from...
As second-quarter earnings reports began to come out last week, many a company reported record sales and earnings. For others, the news about profits was less gay. They complained about the cost-price squeeze and increased competition. Companies with higher and in some cases record first-half earnings per...