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...which I already know by heart." Other program items: Dukas' The Sorcerer's Apprentice, Brahms's Second Symphony. At the end, the orchestra and Conductor Charles Munch (whose wife had died in Paris three days before) received a ten-minute ovation. Next day, before a top-drawer audience in Dublin, the ovation was repeated. But the Irish Times critic was totally unmoved by the sentimentality of the occasion. "The orchestra is very accomplished," he wrote, after the Cork concert. "It plays with great precision and a fine, sensitive response to the conductor's expressive beat...
...Long afterward, when the late Carr Van Anda, managing editor, was visiting Lord Northcliffe's Daily Mail in London, Northcliffe's editor opened a desk drawer and showed him a copy of the Times dated April 19, 1912. Said he: "We keep this as an example of the greatest accomplishment in news reporting...
High Society (MGM) is simply not top-drawer. It should have been. The formula was sound: add music and color to a tested product, in this case Philip Barry's old hit, The Philadelphia Story. Producer Sol Siegel assembled a Who's Who cast. He talked Bing Crosby and Frank Sinatra into teaming in a movie for the first time, snagged the services of Grace Kelly for her last screen appearance before embarking for Monaco, paid Cole Porter a reported $250,000 for his first original movie score in eight years, and hired Louis Armstrong to blow...
...Grand Architectural Award from the Boston Arts Festival, for Saarinen's Massachusetts Institute of Technology cylindrical brick chapel (selected earlier this year by the National Council of Churches as one of the best churches built in the last 25 years); 2) first place in the top-drawer competition for the new U.S. London embassy (TIME, March...
Working with Chairman Hall on the details of the President's 1956 political role is a group of top-drawer Republicans who meet informally and are known in party circles as "the Committee." More or less regular members are White House Chief Sherman Adams, Attorney General Herbert Brownell, Press Secretary James Hagerty, Postmaster General Arthur Summerfield, Pennsylvania's Senator Jim Duff and New York Lawyer Tom Stephens, who has been roaming the country for months as a G.O.P. organizer, trouble-shooter and factfinder. All of them have been planning with the President's health in mind...