Word: eighths
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...joins them at coffee cakes, cognac and a cigar. During the day he reads heavily (mostly history), listens to concerts on his powerful radio, and works. Nobody knows just what his music is like these years, but fans like to play guessing games about whether he has finished an eighth and possibly started a ninth symphony...
WESTINGHOUSE STRIKE, already in its eighth week, will probably be a fight to the finish. Negotiations between Westinghouse and electrical workers are still snarled, and 40 of 98 plants are shut down. Westinghouse is clearing the decks by chopping executive salaries 40% to 50%, cutting purchases and research to the bone; company will also lay off large numbers of white-collar and nonstriking workers...
...After missing in five races at Florida's Tropical Park, Jockey Willie Hartack (TIME, Nov. 28) climbed aboard the eighth-race favorite, Athena, and booted home his 400th winner of the year. Hartack moved up with Willie Shoemaker, the only other 400 winner, just in time. He will have precious few racing days left to mount more winners: for letting his horse bear out in an earlier race, he drew a ten-day suspension...
...long while--67 years, to be exact--it looked as though Tillich and the University would never get together. Born in 1886 in Starzeddel, Prussia, the theologian recalls that as early as the eighth grade it was "my dream" to be a scholar. He studied theology and philosophy at various German universities, became both a Ph.D. and an ordained minister of the Evangelical and Reformed Church, and then in 1914, caught up by the excitement of war, he volunteered to serve as a chaplain in the German army. About two weeks in the front lines were enough to quench...
...Choral Society seemed beautifully trained, especially when they sang softly, but their interpretation of early music, such as Dufay's Magnificat in the Eighth Mode, was overly romantic. They were better in interesting contemporary pieces by Martinu and Harris. Elizabeth Kalkhurst was the fine soprano soloist...