Word: guested
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...television commentator in a Philadelphia television studio waited patiently for the appearance of his guest star, Judge Marceline Romany, the Puerto Rican delegate who gave the Republican Convention one of its brightest moments. Too late for the program, the missing star was finally discovered. He had gone by mistake to another station, and had been interviewed by a radio commentator there. Said Romany: "I was a little bit confused . . . I'm awfully sorry, honestly, I'm sorry. I'm not used to this...
Swedish Resident. Conductor Dixon was not in Europe by chance: a Negro, he moved there in 1949 because the U.S. gave him too little chance. A dozen years ago, with degrees from the Juilliard School and Columbia in his pocket, he got high marks as guest conductor with such top U.S. orchestras as the New York Philharmonic-Symphony, Boston Symphony, Philadelphia Orchestra, NBC Symphony. But good reviews and public honors (he got the 1948 Ditson Award for his services to American music) did not lead to a full-time conducting post...
After skirting the musical fringes with his own interracial American Youth Orchestra and a series of children's concerts for a while, he resolved to try Europe. In Paris, after his debut in a radio concert, the guest-conducting offers began to flock in. Last season he led 32 concerts, and he has conducted in nine countries, from Israel to Finland. Next season he will be a resident conductor of the Goteborg (Sweden) Symphony...
Novelist John P. Marquand was the guest of honor at a luncheon last week in his old home town of Newburyport, Mass., attended by 200 of New England's top businessmen. But, as the nation's leading satirist later confessed, he was not quite sure why he had been honored. Novelist Marquand might have wondered still more if he had turned his satiric eye on the group which honored him, and which he had joined only shortly before. Its name: the Newcomen Society of England in North America...
...nonpolitical) and industrial his tory, with the lofty goal of establishing a "kind of mooring of stability for American business leaders in the troubled waters of America today." The chief moorings seem to be the dinners or luncheon, such as the one for Marquand, at which the honored guest, usually a businessman and always a Newcomener, tells the story of how his own organization became a success. (Marquand spoke on "Federalist Newburyport.") The speech is often printed in booklet form by the Princeton University Press and widely distributed by the society-usually at the expense of the honored guest...