Word: guested
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...conservative guest challenged the soundness of Holyoke's religious principles, but his colleague John Barnard declared him to be as orthodox a Calvinist as any men: yet too much to a gentleman . . . to cram his principles down another man's throat.' 'Then he must be the man,' said the governor, and Holyoke was elected...
Jackie Gleason Show (Sat. 8 p.m., CBS). Guest: Jane Pickens...
...Mamie continued to resist the blandishments of social Washington, stayed mostly at home (their only outing: a preview of a film on the life of Mahatma Gandhi), but during the week the President asked some more Congressmen to lunch. To their utter surprise, House Democrats were included in the guest list, and the White House announced that eventually every Democrat as well as every Republican in Congress (and Maverick Wayne Morse too) would be invited to one of the frequent luncheons...
...Sanders Theatre. Most of those who arrived at 7:50 and later, finding the hall filled to fire-law capacity, fruitlessly alternated between the two entrances, hoping to catch one of the two policemen in a more charitable mood than the other. Others concocted stories about being the personal guest of Mr. Cummings. Two or three climbed the fire escapes only to find all doors firmly fastened. One enterprising young man and his date gained entrance to the basement of Memorial Hall, worked his way through a labyrinth of corridors, and finally came to a dead end when a door...
Last month Chicago critics did similar cartwheels after Cantelli guest-conducted the Chicago Symphony. Wrote the Tribune's tart-tongued Claudia Cassidy: "Just what it is, the spark that sets some artists blazing, nobody knows. But Guido Cantelli has it." Burbled the Herald-American: "He is sensational without resorting to sensationalism . . . original without being extreme . . . Boards of directors: file this young man for future reference." London critics, when they heard him conduct the brilliant London Philharmonia last year, wrote to the same effect...