Word: fame
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...40th anniversary with a gigantic musical reunion, a highlight of its happy, humorous, and impressive history. Many of the men who will play in the almost 400-piece reunion band are those who have been responsible for establishing the Band's unique position in the University community and its fame throughout the country. Although beset by war years, financial worries, rival school's cheering sections, and the Dean's Office, the group has always in its 40 years managed to entertain its audiences and have a good time doing...
...Katharine Cornell and Brian Aherne-TIME, April 27*) provides Actress Bergner with the kind of virtuoso acting opportunities she needs. With top-notch support from German Actor Otto Hasse as Shaw, Bergner limns the famous affair-by-letter, beginning in 1912, when Actress Campbell, at the height of her fame and beauty, was writing to her "Joey the Clown" about appearing in his Pygmalion, through the declining days in Hollywood (where Stella was like "some sinking frigate firing broadside after broadside at anyone who tried to help her"), to the year before Stella's bitter, poverty-stricken death...
...center for Italian art studies. The son of Lithuanian Jewish immigrants to Boston, he got his education (Boston University and Harvard) on scholarships, was sponsored by Boston's Mrs. Jack Gardner, whose collection he largely formed. Before the turn of the century he had made his fame as an art expert when he audaciously announced that about 75% of the Renaissance paintings in a major exhibition in London were either copies or attributed to the wrong artists, weathered the storm of protest and made his judgments stick...
...handsome Hoosier, is the best proof in U.S. business that ugly ducklings do indeed turn into swans. As a vice president, secretary and legal counsel for Montgomery Ward & Co. under depression-minded, penny-pinching Chairman Sewell Avery, Barr was as undistinguished as a duckling; his chief claim to fame was that he showed a rare ability to survive the purges and resignations that cost Ward's five presidents and 30 vice presidents in 23 years. Barr managed to stay by avoiding open conflict with Avery, kept quiet about things that he knew he could not change. This led many...
Queen Elisabeth Concours, Moscow's International Tchaikovsky Piano Competition (which brought previous Leventritt Winner Van Cliburn to fame). Before some of the keenest musical ears in the world,* 58 contestants (all pianists this year) pounded their way through nine days of preliminary competition. By the time they picked the three finalists, the weary panel of judges had listened to some 40 hours of piano playing...