Word: halled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Philadelphia has suffered its Republican city government as it has the water it drank. Both gave off a faint but unpleasant smell, but a true Philadelphian got used to both. This year, after the exposure of graft, extortion and embezzlement in nearly every city office, the smell from City Hall became too much even for torpid Philadelphians...
...passport seemed to her a symbol of pride. "I have given up my home and my parents for God," she told herself. "But I'm still different . . ." So she tore up her passport and became a Chinese citizen. The notice was posted on the doors of the town hall and everyone came to see it. "Then they knew I was truly one of them...
...little (pop. 5,200) Bavarian village of Oberammergau one day last week, the townspeople stood silent in the sundrenched street. Inside the town hall, 25 elders and the parish priest were solemnly deciding who should play the 16 major roles of the 300-year-old Passion Play, scheduled to begin its first season in 16 years next May 21. As each part was filled, the town crier-a young man with shoulder-length blond hair-wrote the names on a blackboard for the people...
...Carnegie Hall (Tues. 8 p.m., ABC). Soloist: Baritone Leonard Warren...
Last week Kenny Wolf got what he wanted. In Chicago's Kimball Hall an audience of 475 heard him work his way confidently and competently through a stiff program of Bach, Schubert, Brahms and Chopin, applauded him roundly when he finished a complicated, explosive Toccata and a pleasant Andante he had written himself. The judgment of the critics, as Seymour Raven of the Chicago Tribune summed it up: "Mr. Wolf has analyzed his music and taken a firm interpretative view of much of it. Yet he often fails where one would expect a boy to falter when wearing...