Word: disks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...South Africa's Strydom refused to come for "personal reasons" which many ascribed to an unwillingness to sit down with-or to be photographed with-the new nation of Ghana's Negro P.M., Kwame Nkrumah. New Zealand's Sidney Holland was laid up with a slipped disk. Ceylon's Solomon Bandaranaike was busy at home fighting a civil-disobedience campaign. All three sent substitutes...
More power to Disk Jockey Howard Miller...
Joel Landau proved the standout of the meet when he gave up a chance to beat Eli rival Disk Fisk in the high hurdles by entering the 100-yard dash 15 minutes earlier. He placed second to teammate Sandy Dodge's 9.9 to give the varsity an extra valuable three points...
Kirchner: Trio for Violin, Cello and Piano and Sonata Concertonte for Violin and Piano (Nathan Rubin, George Neikrug, Eudice Shapiro, Leon Kirchner; Epic). Another Fromm-Epic collaboration, this disk displays Brooklyn-born Leon Kirchner, 38, at his ear-bending, brain-taxing best. Relentlessly driving, violently dissonant, Kirchner's Trio is broken by occasionally wistful lyrical interludes that give way unexpectedly to snarling climaxes. Equally busy and complex, the Sonata Concertante abounds in the strobe-lighted flashes of musical ideas that fitfully illuminate all of Kirchner's works...
...Chicago judge, Miller entered radio as a soap-opera actor soon after his graduation from Knox College, Galesburg, 111. in 1938, and after three years in the World War II Navy, became program director at Chicago's WIND, soon switched to disk jockeying and became an immediate success...