Word: guested
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hours before he woke up with a world-shaking "bellyache" (TIME, June 18). His hosts last week: The United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners, celebrating with formal dress and caviar its 75th anniversary. Sharp in a tartan cummerbund presented him by the Black Watch, famed British Highland regiment, the guest of honor disposed of steak, enjoyed the Hollywood-flavored floor show, then delivered a low-keyed address saluting American trade unionists as "the living proof that Marx was wrong...
Jack Benny Show (Sun. 7:30 p.m., CBS). Guest: Ronald Colman...
...when Meneghini suggested that she give up singing, her demon drove her on. Success was in sight. La Scala asked her to do a guest performance of Aida. She accepted, but professed to scoff at the honor: "Sure, it's a magnificent theater. But me, I'm myopic. For me, theaters all look alike. La Scala is La Scala, but I'm Callas. and I'm myopic. Ecco...
...performance was a fair success, and La Scala offered her another guest appearance. But Callas had the scent of triumph in her nostrils. Haughtily, she refused. They would hire her as a full-fledged member of the company, or they would not get her at all. "They expected me to beg for a role. I would rather have died," she told friends. In 1951 La Scala capitulated. At the age of 28, she opened the Scala season in Sicilian Vespers...
...more decisive point of view is expressed on the subject of student forums and guest speakers. While not demanding complete freedom for students in choosing their own speakers, as is enjoyed at the University, the ACLU does insist that any criteria for permitting speakers and groups to meet on campus be set forth in advance and rigidly maintained, so that banning of a speaker would not result from an immediate hysterical community reaction...