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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...could bring the obdurate British and the stubborn Iranians together? Hoover would. He now assesses the job (with shrewd help from Ambassador Loy Henderson in Teheran) as 10% engineering, 15% negotiation, 75% ministering to emotional fevers. Old hands at the State Department appraise it as the finest one-man job since Dulles negotiated the Japanese peace treaty...
...Grey Ghost had come back. Last week, at Saratoga Springs. Native Dancer, one of the finest thoroughbreds ever to run on an American track, went to the starting gate (in a betless race) for the first time since May and romped home a winner. The champ seemed fit and fully recovered from the bruised foot that forced him into temporary retirement (TIME, June...
...drama and without a decisive style of its own. Despite the efforts of Conductor George Szell and the cast, the audience clapped coolly. Success of the evening: Star Christl Goltz, who sang Penelope with the cold but brilliant voice that has made her one of the finest dramatic sopranos on the Continent. Her own feeling about Penelope differed from the majority: "We can be thankful that a modern work is as strong as this. The world goes on. We can't always be singing Salome, Aïda and Rigoletto...
Offstage, Producer Fred Coe, who has been responsible for putting on the air some of the finest new TV playwrights (e.g., Horton Foote and Paddy Chayev-sky), had trouble over the Playhouse series: the advertising agency was upset by the lack of upbeat endings and the prevalence of Southern "mood" plays (Coe was born in Alligator, Miss.). Complained an adman: "One week there'd be a story about a blind old lady in Texas, and the next week a story about a blind young lady in Texas." This summer the Playhouse audience rating took a serious dip (usually...
Under Arturo Toscanini, the NBC Symphony became one of the world's finest orchestras. Last spring, when Toscanini retired, the NBC Symphony died, leaving three-quarters of its 92 members without regular work. But the orchestral ghost would not give up. Members met with the orchestra's radio producer, Don Gillis, formed a committee and decided that there was a fighting chance for a comeback. Last week the group incorporated as the Symphony Foundation of New York, adopted the name Symphony of the Air, and went out to look for business. Likeliest projects: 1) concerts in a theater...