Word: forte
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Texas made symphony news all its own. Fort Worth is putting a new, 60-man orchestra into the field; the San Antonio Symphony claimed, the distinction of having hired the first woman concertmaster of a major U.S. orchestra: shy, petite Nannette Levy, 30, who throws her whole body behind her impassioned bowing. The Dallas Symphony will open the season with selections it is dedicating to veterans, with a Congressional Medal of Honor winner present as a guest. In Houston Leopold Stokowski, who flies into a rage if anyone says he is more than 70, has found an unlikely new musical...
...airport one 18° morning last week, a stocky, greying man staggered cheerfully under the weight of a pile of enormous, fleece-lined coats. To arriving friends the man said: "Here, you better take this. It might be cold up there." It was. The gathering party's destination, Fort St. John, B.C., lay smothered under snowdrifts 8 ft. high. But to Francis Murray Patrick McMahon, temporary coat-dispenser and full-time oil-and-gas tycoon, a town buried under snow was no problem. Calling for "all the tractors from Dawson creek to the Alaska border," McMahon...
...blowout in celebration of the link-up of his Westcoast Transmission Co. Ltd. pipeline to the U.S. Northwest. Chartering five four-engine aircraft (at a cost of $13,000 each), McMahon got the wingding off in high gear by serving cocktails with breakfast on the flight to Fort St. John. There the guests were provided with more clothing-350 pairs of overshoes and 350 raincoats flown in from Vancouver. Eight chartered buses, which had churned through a blizzard from Edmonton to get there on time, took them to Westcoast Transmission's huge gas-scrubbing plant (TIME, Sept. 2). Then...
...McMahon was in line at 8 a.m. at the government offices; he bought permits No. i, 2 and 3 for $1,800,000, thus obtained rights to 3,000,000 acres. Incorporating Westcoast Transmission Co. Ltd. in 1949, McMahon three years later brought in his first gas well, Pacific Fort St. John No. 3. By 1955 McMahon won permission from the U.S. Federal Power Commission to export gas to the U.S., started to build a $170 million, 650-mile pipeline from the Peace River area to the U.S. border, to hook into the Pacific Northwest Pipeline Corp...
Guard Interference. In Des Moines, the lucky winner of the Register's "You Pick 'Em" football-score contest, for which he received two free 50-yard-line tickets to the Iowa-Wisconsin football game, was Fort Madison (Iowa) Penitentiary Prisoner...