Word: fifth
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...York Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra conducted by Stokowski, Rodzinski, Walter, and Damrosch--at different times, of course. It has Heifetz, Rubenstein, Pinza, Piatigorsky, and other artists. It has Vaughn Monroe and Harry James. It has an insipid plot that runs contrapuntal to Beethoven's "Fifth" and Tehaikovsky's "Piano Concerto"--you know ... "Tonight we love...
...conduct before the Senate." In the Senate, Labor Minister Prio Socarrás had been called on the carpet last week to explain why he threw the Communists out of Havana's Labor Palace last August (TIME, Aug. 11). He told the Senate that the Reds were a fifth column for Russia, that they did not belong in the Labor Palace and that they did not represent Cuban labor. By the time he had finished almost everyone but the Communists seemed satisfied. Prio hoped that his Senate success had placed him securely in the No. 1 position to succeed...
...Will to Survive. Because Harlem with only one-fifth of Manhattan's population, accounts for more than half its delinquency, Dr. Wertham concentrates on neurotic youngsters. One-fifth of his patients are children...
...four days the partners studied a Palace Club roulette wheel, jotting down the winning numbers and recording the machine's pattern.* On the fifth day Hibbs & Walford selected No. 21 and made their first bet-a cautious 25?. As their winnings mounted, the crowd of tourists, gamblers, divorce-seekers and hangers-on increased. So did the Hibbs-Walford bets, until $11 was riding on each spin. Their longest losing streak: 266 spins. Their luckiest run: four wins out of five spins. Hibbs & Walford spelled each other in eight-hour shifts. After 40 hours, when Hibbs & Walford had parlayed their...
...Holland's largest corporations is the Royal Dutch Petroleum Co., a $440,000,000 concern. An estimated one-fifth of its stock, or $45,000,000 worth, is held by U.S. investors, who, like the Dutch stockholders, have first option to buy any new shares issued. Last week the company announced a whopping new $114,000,000 stock issue. But the Dutch government, by means of new currency controls, virtually froze U.S. investors...