Word: gold
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...your Jelke story: headline of the week, month and year is "The Solid Gold Cad." If the jeu de mots was good enough for the Age of Reason, i.e., the 18th century, leave us give it a whirl in the 20th, and not a minute too soon...
...that "all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from immigrants." Harry Truman did not help matters in 1952 by suggesting that the ladies send a committee to count the bars of bullion at Fort Knox when they had expressed suspicion that some of the gold might be missing. So it was no wonder that the D.A.R. preened itself last year when Dwight Eisenhower came to address its annual meeting, the first President to do so in 16 years. Said a satisfied delegate: "We've come into our own at last...
...Just a Chevvy," dreamed one young man as he elbowed his way toward the solid gold Chevrolet display, which commemorated G.M.'s fifty millionth vehicle. Meanwhile, another worshipper who already owned one of the fifty million asked the way to the Oldsmobile exhibit, and a man who had driven to the show in an Olds spent his time in the Cadillac section of the hall. He couldn't take his eyes off the $15,000 model. One was crmine-lined; another had a television set, telephone, and tape recorder in the back seat. The man was so absorbed...
...March 28), Les Canadiens managed to push the series to the seven-game limit, but the red-hot Red Wings skated off with the cup and the world championship. ¶ While Bowie's horse players broiled under the Baltimore sun, stewards studied movies of the Governor's Gold Cup race, decided that Boston Doge had committed no foul, gave the unkempt little sprinter his tenth straight victory. ¶Even Coach "Rusty"Callow figures that Navy's long-unbeaten crew (three years, 30 races and the 1952 Olympic championship) is stroking toward disaster. But the Middies, who have...
...armchair (bass), clock (baritone), teapot (tenor), fire (coloratura soprano) come to life to terrify him into better behavior. Despite its size, the orchestra twiddles and tweaks lightly, and the tunes are often as naive as The King and I. Performance: a knockout. Von Weber: Four-Hand Piano Pieces (Arthur Gold, Robert Fizdale; Columbia). A gifted romantic at his most melodious. Weber puts as much sweet pathos and lilting grace into these little charmers as he does into his more famed operas (Der Freischutz, Oberon, Euryanthe). Other notable new releases: Brahms's German Requiem (soloists, Frankfurt Opera Chorus and Orchestra...