Word: flatting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sight. Three sisters, they were also sisters of Los Angeles' congregation of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, and they had been performing together since 1931, when the youngest was five, the eldest nine. Their Capitol debut in Schubert's Trio No. 2 in E flat, Opus 100, marks the latest step in the musical career of a remarkable trio...
...order.) Specifications for the bishop's standard funeral will correspond to the undertakers' Class 4-two priests, one cantor, two choirboys, no deacon or archdeacon, no draperies or crape, six candles on the altar and eight at the catafalque. The church fee will be a flat $15; undertakers will have to make what profit they can on extras outside the church-ornate coffins, luxurious hearses, etc. The dead whose families cannot afford to pay even for the simplified funeral will be buried at the expense of the local government, and with no fee for the church...
...Barbara Romack Porter of Sacramento, the 1954 champ. Anne was tired ("I couldn't sleep last night") but philosophical ("I'd give anything to win the tournament, but I don't intend to spend my life trying to win it"). At the start, her swing looked flat, and Mrs. Porter had a three-up lead at the 18-hole lunch break, still led two-up after 26 holes. But she three-putted the 27th and Anne got her short game going better than ever. She birdied three of the next four holes (one with a brilliant...
...white overalls drove up each morning in a truck that contained a battery of cameras with telephoto lenses. For days, everyone who entered or left the house was filmed. Separating the legitimate tenants from a recurring stream of Algerians, the police narrowed their search to a two-room flat on the fifth floor, rented by a 28-year-old French girl named Cécile Decugis, a cinema technician who had once worked in Tunisia...
Cajoled from his hideaway in Flat Rock, N.C. for a benefit honoring a nearby little-theater group, Poet Carl Sandburg, 80, lofted a missile seemingly aimed at San Francisco's Latin Quarter and Manhattan's MacDougal Street: "Poets ain't doin' so good. They are cursed by obfuscators. They read their poems to each other. They certify each other...