Word: fifth
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Harry Truman sent his fifth veto* to the 80th Congress last week. This time it was the wool bill...
...First U.S. recordings of the 1945 work which the high command of Soviet music damned as "ideologically weak" and "not reflecting the true spirit of the Soviet people." U.S. listeners will find the Ninth sometimes playful, often merely trivial and tricky, and never a match for Shostakovich's Fifth. Koussevitzky, speeding the slow movement, gets through it in one record less than Kurtz, but his performance is less satisfactory...
Giggles & Leers. So, last week, began Horton's 1,180th performance of Benn Levy's British farce, Springtime for Henry. In 15 years of off-&-on touring, Henry has brought Edward Horton almost $1,000,000. This summer, for the fifth consecutive season, Edward has taken the old boy on the summer circuit with a supporting cast of three (Lilian Bond, Elaine Ellis and Matthew Smith) and the prospect of an average $1,800-a-week net to add to Horton's earnings...
...others will seek to discover the effect of the President's veto of the bill on his political chances, and question of how various influences played on Congressmen voting for the bill. A fifth inquiry will ask for an estimate of the veto procedure as illustrated by the Congressional-Executive battle over...
Walk up the Nile. "He repeats this ritual twice in the day's first prayer (at sunrise), four times in the second (at noon), four times in the third (mid-afternoon), three times in the fourth (sunset), four times in the fifth and last (about an hour and a half after sunset). The week's most important prayer is at noon on Friday, when Moslems fill the mosques to overflowing. Inside the mosques are fountains, at which the Moslem washes in a prescribed sequence: hands, mouth, nose, face, right arm, left arm, head, ears, right foot, left foot...