Word: hitting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With last week's opening-night audience, at least, it was a direct hit. Composer Barber's Vanessa failed to be intensely moving or to spring any musical or dramatic surprises, but it could still lay claim to being the best U.S. opera yet staged at the Metropolitan...
...palaces does not go unnoticed for long. Last week word quietly leaked out that what may be the prime catch of the years was quietly bagged last December by Manhattan Financier and Collector Robert Lehman, whose one-collection show at the Louvre's Orangerie last summer was the hit of Paris (TIME, July 1). The painting: Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres' masterful portrait, La Princesse de Broglie (see cut), for more than 100 years the possession of France's Dues de Broglie, now hanging in the dining room of Robert Lehman's Park Avenue apartment. Estimated price...
Last week, after one of his white male teachers had been hit by a Negro pupil, School Superintendent James A. Hazlett finally brought the mess into the open. The story, as Hazlett and his teachers told it, was one of basic hooliganism aggravated by racial friction. Strong-armed bullies of both races extort nickels and dimes from young whites and Negroes alike. But when an argument starts, the races close ranks. "A fight might not be caused by racial issues in the beginning," said Hazlett, "but before it is over, you have a white-Negro problem...
...Uruguay, and attacked. They had their nerve. The German was one of the most formidable ships afloat-a fact soon demonstrated. In little more than an hour the Exeter was wallowing out of action. But the other two cruisers, harrying the enemy like sharks at a whale, managed to hit where it hurt. The German commander (Peter Finch) withdrew into the River Plate, and docked at Montevideo. Prodded by the Allies, neutral Uruguay allowed the Graf Spee less than four days for repairs, and meanwhile the British spread rumors of a large (and largely nonexistent) fleet that had gathered...
...Garmaker hit 23 points in the third period, mostly on jump shots, to tie Bob Pettit's record for points scored in a single period...