Word: guested
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...remove their abas, and spend the evening chatting and sipping soft drinks clad in the latest New York or Paris fashions. The men go off to the salamlik to dine, exchange stories and fret about the price of oil. When the party is over, a servant notifies a woman guest that her husband is ready. She dons her veil and shroud, thanks her hostess and departs without ever seeing her host. But next day she may slip out in her car, doff her aba as soon as she is beyond sight of the town and take the wheel herself...
...having hired the first woman concertmaster of a major U.S. orchestra: shy, petite Nannette Levy, 30, who throws her whole body behind her impassioned bowing. The Dallas Symphony will open the season with selections it is dedicating to veterans, with a Congressional Medal of Honor winner present as a guest. In Houston Leopold Stokowski, who flies into a rage if anyone says he is more than 70, has found an unlikely new musical home, and though he has never quite stepped out of the limelight, is experiencing another renaissance. Stokie's Houston Symphony concerts are sold 98% in advance...
Enthusiastic amateur musicians are tuning up for their biggest season. The Sioux City Symphony (70 semipros and amateurs) opened with Met Baritone Leonard Warren as guest. The Cedar Rapids Symphony (69 amateurs and 17 members of the musicians' union) had a full house with, said Conductor Henry Denecke, "no one out with the flu and the bases loaded," i.e., all five bass chairs occupied, no simple matter in Cedar Rapids...
Died. Mary Gunning (Maguire) Colum, 70, "incorrigibly Irish" critic (From These Roots) and autobiographer (Life and the Dream), guest professor of comparative literature at Columbia University, whose seasoned literary criticism was always lucid and shrewd, often eloquent and powerful; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. A student member of the Dublin circle of writers and poets who led the "Irish literary renaissance" before World War I, she married (in 1912) Padraic Colum, poet-dramatist founder of the Irish Review, settled with him in the U.S. Her last work-in-progress (with her husband): Our Friend James Joyce...
...orchestra gave its guest soloist full support throughout. Except for some bad moments at the violin entrance, resulting from the fast tempo taken in the ritornello, Poto followed the soloist with amazing precision. While the orchestra did not play with as much expressiveness, rhythmic drive, and intensity as it might have, it at least supplied vigor and accuracy. The winds lapsed into insecure entrances and poor intonation at the beginning of the second movement, but their solos were generally good, especially those of oboist Michael Palmer. Miss Martzy received an immediate standing ovation at the end--a rare event...