Word: grahame
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...only a day or less in such cities as Ottawa, Winnipeg and Vancouver, the Queen will see more of her people and country than most Canadians do in a lifetime. "I can't think of a single event where silk hats will be worn," says Lieut. General Howard Graham, Ottawa's top tour planner. "Perhaps a better word for the tour than 'informal' is 'comfortable...
...improbable as the society that conceived it. The charter members met in Washington one January night in 1888 determined to promote "the increase and diffusion of geographic knowledge." At first their magazine was filled with minutes of meetings and obscure scientific tracts. But when an inventor named Alexander Graham Bell took over as the society's president in 1898, he decided that it needed a full-time editor and a broader appeal. A year later he found the right man: Gilbert Hovey Grosvenor, a 23-year-old, ninth-generation New Englander. Gilbert Grosvenor married Bell's daughter...
...rare instances of painters whom time mellows and improves. Such a one was Philadelphia Painter Arthur Carles, whose reputation for a while seemed to gutter and go out. Now, with a chance to review his lifetime's production at an exhibition of paintings at Manhattan's Graham galleries, critics have been shocked into recognizing Carles as one of the unsung ancestors of today's abstract painting...
...gave him first place in 1959 winnings with $270,250. ¶ In a dual track meet between Oklahoma and Oklahoma State at Norman, Okla., for the first time in college track history three vaulters cleared 15 ft. in the same event. Tied for first: Oklahoma State's Jim Graham and Aubrey Dooley (15 ft. 5 in.). Oklahoma's J. D. Martin, who vaulted 15 ft. 3¾ in., had to be content with third place. ¶ At a special meeting in Columbus, Ohio, baseball's big league club owners finally faced up to the fact that other...
...deux (set to Five Pieces, Opus 10), Balanchine has a man and a woman approach each other time and again in an elaborate effort to embrace, only to have a final miscalculation leaving them clutching at air. Vastly different in their approaches, both Balanchine and Graham were remarkably successful at illuminating Webern's sparse, mostly atonal scores-perhaps the world's unlikeliest music for dancing...