Word: eighteens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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That happened to Goodman four years ago, when the Philharmonic, playing under Leopold Stokowski in Chicago, swung into Arcady Dubensky's energetic Fugue for Eighteen Violins. The trouble was that the whole percussion section, which had no part in the violin piece, began playing the next piece on its music racks-Khacha-turian's Symphony No. 2-which opens with a crashing, jangling blast. "We raised the roof," says Goodman. "The plaster fell." Stokowski allowed them to hammer away happily for eight whole bars before they skidded to a stop. It has never happened again...
Nash is not the first U.S. automaker to see the advantage of such a deal. Eighteen months ago Ford started marketing its British-made Consul in the U.S. ($1,695 in New York). It has since sold 4,000. Last spring Ford started making a slightly bigger version, the Zephyr 6. But the British automakers still manage to dominate the American small car market. Since 1949 they have nearly doubled the sales of Hillmans, Austins and the low-slung MG. It now looks as if the market for small cars is finally getting big enough to make it really worth...
Speaking of the thirteen men who contributed a dollar and a prayer to found Colgate, one of Colgate's favorite songs says: "funds were low, but abundant was their pluck, in eighteen-nineteen...
Back in 1948, the President answered critics of his White House balcony by saying that Mrs. Fillmore "almost got lynched" after her husband put in the first bathtub. Eighteen months ago, while escorting Novelist John (The Wall) Hersey through the presidential mansion, Truman retold the tale. White House Secretary Bill Hassett, who was standing at his elbow, gently told the President the awful truth...
Conant today calls the legend entirely untrue, but admits that "perhaps it is symbolic. Eighteen years later he feels that he has succeeded in shutting off chemistry in a small, little-used corner of his mind. True, there are occasional twinges when he reads chemical journals or revises his standard textbook on the subject, but he has done no actual research since becoming president. He gives infrequent but spectacular demonstrations in Natural Science courses, but, as he says, "since 1933 I can't claim to have advanced the barriers of science one millimeter...