Word: duos
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Most of the steady, old hands of both parties (e.g., the Massachusetts duo, Republican Leader Joseph Martin and Democratic Leader John McCormack) will be back. One old face that will be missing: the pudgy countenance of New York's Democratic Representative Donald L. O'Toole a Yiddish-speaking Irishman, whose Brooklyn district was carved into a new shape last year by the Republican state legislature. In the new district, which gerrymanders through Brooklyn taking in some safe G.O.P. territory, the veteran O'Toole (eight terms) lost to Republican Lawyer Francis E. Dorn...
...Wiley Sings Irving Berlin and Vincent Youmans (with Stan Freeman and Cy Walter, duo-pianists; 2 Columbia LPs). Another longtimer, Songstress Wiley has a husky voice that breathes wistfully of the '20s. Her style is confidential; she picks the songs, both gay (Rise 'n Shine, Some Sunny Day) and melancholy (Suppertime, Time on My Hands), that are best suited to her voice...
Friends of the accused duo swore last night that they could account for the actions of both during the entire afternoon...
...this year things were different. Barnaby had three junior and two senior returning lettermen; including his first and third singles players and a member of the 1951 first doubles duo. But even more encouraging were the men moving up from last year's undefeated freshman team; Barnay juxtaposed these neatly with his veterans to form a six-man singles lineup which is solid all the way down...
...concertmaster, soloist and conductor in Germany, he was rarely without his own ensemble. In 1939 he visited the U.S. with the Budapest Quartet, stayed on and played with the Budapest through most of the war. Since the war, he has organized in turn a chamber music trio, a duo and the Schneider Quartet, and taken a leading part in the Casals festivals in France. Last winter, in preparation for the Haydn cycle, he rehearsed six hours a day with Violinist