Word: guested
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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First, the 750 A.F.L. delegates had brushed off Ike's Labor Secretary, James Mitchell, an invited guest. Mitchell was kept waiting nearly an hour, and his speech, when it came, could hardly be heard amidst the noisy shuffling and talk (but not applause). Jim Mitchell, who felt that "it was time to have it out," chided the A.F.L. for attacking the Administration "unfairly" and giving "only grudging praise" for progressive actions like this year's major social-security extension...
Rosanna Carteri, 23, guest star at Milan's La Scala, the Salzburg Festival, etc., had the crowd swooning from the moment she walked on stage as Mimi in Puccini's La Bohème. She reminded one critic of Italy's "gorgeous-looking, immensely skillful actresses," surprised everyone when her warm singing and touching performance equaled her looks. In her second opera, a sunny revival of Cherubim's The Portuguese Inn, the San Francisco Chronicle's Alfred Frankenstein called her "the very incarnation of youthful feminine grace and vivacity." Even before she had appeared...
Copland had been invited to deliver a series of guest lectures on music at the University during the past academic year. But disturbing facts began to come to the attention of University officials. It was learned that Copland had been accused of Communist associations and that one of his musical compositions had been withdrawn from the program of the Eisenhower inauguration because of the pretests of an Illinois congressman...
...Luis Angel ("The Wild Bull of the Pampas") Firpo. Argentines have always believed that Firpo, who lost the 1923 fight by a k.o. in the second round after Dempsey knocked him down nine times, really won it in the first, when he smashed Dempsey clean through the ropes. Gracious Guest Dempsey made the Peronistas exuberant by agreeing. Said he: "I don't understand yet why they did not raise [Firpo's] hand, because in my country when a boxer leaves the ring-and I did leave the ring-he has lost the fight. In my heart, Firpo...
Meet the Press (Sun. 6 p.m., NBC). Guest: Atomic Energy Commissioner Lewis Strauss...