Word: enthusiasts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...came to its new concert series slowly, and not too surely, mostly through the quiet determination of Music Producer Oliver Daniel, 41. Originally trained as a pianist, he joined the network ten years ago, produced such pioneering shows as Invitation to Music and School of the Air. As an enthusiast for contemporary scores, he also sandwiched them into briefer programs, along with salon music and show tunes. Nowadays, scarcely a program of CBS's informal Music Room, its recitals by Organist E. Power Biggs (both on Sunday mornings) or its Wednesday Top Hat show goes by without airing some...
SHIP AHOY! YOUR WONDERFUL JULY 27 ARTICLE, "DESIGN FOR LIVING," TOUCHED A TENDER SPOT IN A SAILING ENTHUSIAST. WHEN MY WIFE, TWO DAUGHTERS, DACHSHUND AND I SET SAIL ON OUR 18-FT. SEAGULL, "SCHORR-NUFF," THOSE WE LEAVE BEHIND PROCLAIM US NUTS. TIME HAS PRINTED THE TRUTH. WE ARE LIVING. THOSE LANDLUBBERS ARE NUTS...
...Manhattan, a 61-year-old walking enthusiast named David Power dipped his toes in upper New York Bay at the end of a 3,160-mile walk from Santa Monica, Calif. Walker Power averaged about 41 miles a day for 73½ days, wore out five pairs of shoes, lost...
After that, peacetime Washington and nearby Maryland promised to be a fisherman's dream. Captain Thomas D. Smith Jr., another enthusiast, was also stationed at the institute. "Everyone we met told us that fishing was fine in Maryland," says Rathbun. The trouble was that Rathbun and Smith could find no fish. "Go to Queen Anne's Bridge," said the experts. "or try 'The Gooses.'" For a long time the two men couldn't even find the recommended fishing holes...
...expire until 1955, Admiral William Morrow Fechteler, 57. a sea dog with a somewhat tenuous hold on world politics and the art of interservice maneuvers, will probably be replaced as Chief of Naval Operations. Front runner for the job: Admiral Robert Bostwick ("Mick") Carney, 58, a Navy air enthusiast who has shaped up a first-rate land & sea fighting force as NATO commander for Southern Europe...