Word: fines
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Star once used three editors, five photographers and twelve reporters and rewritemen on a plane crash. Both cities use four-color news pictures (the Star regularly has one on its front page). Both produce Sunday papers that are regional institutions, provide readers with everything from soil-conservation guidance to fine sequence pictures of Big Ten football plays. Crack circulation departments turn loose an army of 19,000 eager carrier boys to home-deliver fully 85% of the Sunday papers. In all, the Cowles brothers have a 275,000-square-mile hegemony: the Des Moines Register (circ. 220,221), Tribune (circ...
...also turned out dozens of show albums for the major record companies. In addition, he has built a fine reputation as an interpreter of baroque music, which he claims to understand intuitively because of his experience in "living theater." Currently, he is planning an operetta based on Chekhov's The Boor, recording albums of Broadway overtures (for Columbia), Broadway ballets (for RCA Victor), writing an autobiographical survey of the U.S. musical scene. His breathless commuting between composing and conducting, Broadway and highbrow, has earned him, in some quarters, the affectionate handle of "the Poor Man's Lenny Bernstein...
...past the Lyric has put on many a fine, star-heavy performance, and last week's cast was again impressive: Viennese Soprano Leonie Rysanek as Aïda, Italian Mezzo-Soprano Giulietta Simionato as Amneris, Swedish Tenor Jussi Bjoerling as Radames, Italian Baritone Tito Gobbi as Amonasro. But the stage sets looked as though they had been resurrected from an early copy of the Victor Book of Operas: cluttered scenes with every temple, tower and palm frond rendered in tedious detail. And Paris Opera Conductor Georges Sebastian throttled the tempo to a crawl, once even goaded Tenor Bjoerling into...
Tackle: Jim Marshall, 20, Ohio State; 6 ft. 3 in., 222 lbs. Junior. Major: physical education. Fine blocker, fast-reacting on defense, has speed enough to outrun many backs, performed an incredible feat for a lineman against Purdue by running for two touchdowns with a blocked punt and an intercepted pass; a probable high pro choice next year...
...Odyssey: A Modern Sequel to reach English in hexameter from its original modern Greek. The poem has not been translated into any other language and so is virtually unknown outside its native Greece. But in it, chances are, U.S. readers have a masterpiece at hand, in a fine translation...