Word: hells
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Well, the U.S. was a little slow getting the satellite into space, evidently lost the propaganda race on the banning of nuclear weapons, can't wrestle, but it sure as hell can play the piano...
...Hell." At a plump twelve, he made his orchestral debut with the Houston Symphony as a winner of a statewide young pianists' competition, played Tchaikovsky's B Flat Concerto. The same year he played in Carnegie Hall as the Texas winner of the National Music Festival's nationwide competition to uncover talented junior soloists. Mamma Cliburn ferried him out to California to play for Jose Iturbi, and Iturbi promptly proclaimed him "the most talented youngster I've heard...
...time. He was a good dancer. He was one of the most congenial boys in school." But Van was also as much a maverick in smalltown Texas as he was later to seem on the international concert circuit. Childhood and adolescence, outside his family, he remembers as "a living hell." He had reached his full 6 ft. 4 in. (size 12 shoes) by the time he was 14, and he was excruciatingly selfconscious; he is still convinced that he has "no looks." More important, Van was a musician. "You can't love music enough to want to play...
...best way to get sailfish; more can be caught using live bait while anchored or drifting along the rim of the coral reefs that edge the Gulf Stream. Snorts Captain Gifford: "The charter thinks he has to troll when he goes big-game fishing, and he gets mad as hell when you stop and anchor. A lot of them say: 'Whatcha doing? You going to bottom fish? I didn't come out here to catch grouper.' I tell them to go to hell; if they want to catch fish, listen...
Down Under Heaven. In Sydney, Australia, a newspaper columnist noted that Walk into Paradise, an Australian film about New Guinea, will be called Walk into Hell when it is distributed...