Word: harold
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Democrat William Meyer defeated Congressional candidate Harold Arthur for the first Democratic state-wide victory since 1852. Republicans won, however, in the Senate and Gubernatorial contests...
Democrat Vance Hartke took over the Senate seat vacated by the retiring Republican Sen. Edward Jenner by defeating Republican Harold Handley...
...welcome Heuss, official Britain rolled out its full panoply of protocol, pomp and pageantry. Queen Elizabeth, Prince Philip and Princess Margaret, Harold Macmillan and his Cabinet and Britain's military service chiefs were waiting, with smiles and handshakes, on a red carpet in London's grimy Victoria Station. Artillery in Hyde Park thundered in salute. The scarlet-coated band of the Scots Guards even broke into Deutschland über Alles. Headlined London's tabloid Daily Sketch: O.K., FRITZ, YOU'RE OUT OF THE DOGHOUSE...
...Frederick Harold Cook, 43, was elected president and chief executive officer of Congoleum-Nairn, second biggest U.S. manufacturer (first: Armstrong Cork) of smooth-surface floor coverings, succeeding F. J. Andre, 59, who moved up to chairman. A salesman in the floor-covering industry since his graduation from Indiana University ('36), Cook joined Congoleum-Nairn in 1955 as a vice president in charge of sales just when sales and profits were turning down (deficit for the first nine months of this year: $1,964,720 v. $107,222 for the same period in 1957). Said Cook...
There is always a certain amount of risk involved in choosing a program which is, in many ways, beyond the Orchestra's capabilities. The risk paid off in Brahms's Haydn Variations, which received a superb performance. Slightly less successful was Berlioz' Harold in Italy, which was the victim of mishaps ranging from such acts of God as late entrances and extra-musical noises on stage, to the more controllable blunders of intonation...