Word: foss
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...managed to turn out a symphony and a quantity of piano works and chamber music. As a concert pianist, he admires the moderns-Copland, Barber. Prokofiev, Hindemith, Bartok-but he has also recorded all the four-hand piano music of Mozart, with his good friend Composer Lukas Foss. His jazz manner is all his own: a fanciful, highly individualistic style, characterized by kaleidoscopic rhythmic shifts, trip-hammered treble runs and a discreetly swinging left hand punctuated by sudden stops and breaks. He heads a combo that performs occasionally in dedicated jazz rooms, and with famed West Coast Drummer Shelly Manne...
Lettuce Sandwich. Party labels are no guideposts to the spenders. In South Dakota, Ralph Herseth, first Democratic governor in 22 years, quickly tacked another third to the budget increase suggested by outgoing Joe Foss. Contrariwise, Kansas Democrat George Docking has been the only Governor to compile a budget lower than last year's. And New York's big-budget Republican Rockefeller (see New York) is sandwiched between Democratic Liberals Robert Meyner of New Jersey and Abraham Ribicoff of Connecticut, both with modest proposals and no tax increases...
...congressional seats safely belongs to Republican E. Y. Berry, 56. In the other, Republican Governor Joe Foss is running against Incumbent Democratic Representative George McGovern, first Democrat to hold a South Dakota congressional seat in 18 years. The South Dakota vote is strictly agricultural: McGovern started ahead because Foss had lost friends by raising taxes; then rains brought a farm boom and Foss moved up; then an August drought came to McGovern's help. Result: McGovern appears to have a handy lead, rapping Ezra Benson while Republican Foss tries to avoid taking a stand one way or another...
...another suit last week, Mrs. Gladys C. Foss of St. Louis, also a widow, charged that she went into the Arthur Murray studio there, intending to take only a few lessons, paid $5 down and soon was persuaded to pay $17,040 for lifetime memberships. But she balked at selling her house to buy more lessons, instead sued for $100,000, charging fraud...
Such is the changed political climate of South Dakota that even Joe Foss enters the race as an underdog to a Democrat. George McGovern, 35, himself a World War II B-24 pilot with a Distinguished Flying Cross, is a hard worker and a skilled orator, has since his election in 1956 entrenched his position. As governor, Joe Foss, blamed for rising real estate taxes, won 1956 re-election by only 25,000 votes -and the First District does not include his areas of greatest strength. But Foss's greatest handicap this year is the same that got George...