Word: fleetness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...What I like is running newspapers and TV"). Son of a Toronto barber, Roy Thomson started collecting his fortune when he set up a bush-country radio station, soon took over a bush-country weekly in a fast deal: "One dollar down and chase me for the rest." Like Fleet Street's Lord Beaverbrook, he eventually outgrew Canada, six years ago bought Edinburgh's Scotsman, settled in Scotland, soon had a corner on Scottish commercial TV ("The most beautiful music to me is a spot commercial at ten bucks a whack") and an approved coat of arms. Motto...
...contemporary organists. She has on more than one occasion proved herself to be a finer musician than many of the organists with a big reputation. Her playing last night was about as close to being note-perfect as any live organ recital I can recall. She manifested facile fingers, fleet feet, and fluid phrasing. Her choice of registration was always judicious, effective, and appropriate to the style and period of the pieces she performed. And there was none of the dreary or mechanical dispiritedness that characterizes so much organ playing these days...
Died. Admiral Harry E. Yarnell, 83, seadog commander of the U.S. Asiatic Fleet in the tense years before Pearl Harbor, who defied threats from the Japanese without shooting at them, although his own U.S.S. Augusta was twice bombed, demanded and got $2,200,000 indemnity when the Japanese sank (1937) the U.S. gunboat Panay on the Yangtze, later, as a retired (1939) officer, denounced the dropping of atom bombs on Japan as "a diabolic act against a defeated nation"; in Newport...
...insist on the right of free access to Berlin, that will mean war. ''but it will be your war." ¶ The U.S.S.R. has set up in Communist China an array of rockets with enough range to hit Formosa and destroy the U.S.'s Formosa-guarding Seventh Fleet; it will also back Red China in any invasion of Formosa...
...Fleet Street's ink was running dry, and throughout the British Isles newspapers and periodicals were closed or closing. Reason: Great Britain's worst printing strike in more than 30 years. Started last month, when members of ten printers' unions walked off their jobs, the strike last week spread to 38 firms making ink for the nation's presses, including those of London's mass-circulation dailies...