Word: findings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Reached by phone yesterday, Blaik said that he was looking forward to his new assignment. He stated that his first task would be to "find a lonesome end somewhere on campus." Blaik plans to begin "talking up Harvard football" immediately. "I am encouraged about recruiting prospects," he said. "I've been told that we'll have a good share of that Program money for scholarships. Terry and I will really put your school...
...rest of the pie, 20% each went to the backers of the whole deal (Mirisch Co.), to the distributor (United Artists), and to Mahin-Rackin. Said Wheeler-Dealer Marty Rackin as Horse Soldiers was being readied for release: "Hollywood's gone crazy. It'll have to find its level again when all this dies down...
Chiefly because they were both schooled in "the sonority of the grand tradition," they find that their general approach to music is remarkably similar. Even so, they have problems. "Please, Paul," cries Demus when he is not getting enough pedal, "I'm starving." Occasionally, they get their signals crossed: once, each waited "for a terrible moment" for the other to make a solo entrance, finally came in together. But such lapses are rare, and none but the sharpest critical ears have managed to detect them. The reason, Badura-Skoda points out, is that most of the music they play...
...Allied ruling on Krupp, later written into German law, was designed to break up the huge combine that supplied Hitler with much of his arms. Krupp won extensions from the original March 1958 deadline by pleading he could not find a buyer for the Rheinhausen works, center of his coal and steel holdings. Permission for Rheinhausen to buy the new company made it almost certain that Krupp will not have to keep his promise to dispose of his coal and steel holdings this year. Said a Krupp spokesman: "The promise was given under compulsion...
...trouble at New Jersey's Diamond County Home for the Aged begins on the day of the annual August fair. The oldsters awake to find little tin name plates tacked to their wicker porch chairs. Gregg, a 70-year-old rebel without a cause, splenetically pries his tag loose. The philosophic Hook, an old man's old man of 94, observes mildly of Gregg's feat that workmanship is not what it once was. The armchair rebellion merely saddens Conner, the poorhouse prefect. A self-punishing do-gooder, Conner needs the inmates' gratitude to mirror...