Word: holderness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Berman, a former Eastern Interscholastic half-mile title-holder, was expected by the most optimistic to run a fast fifth against the field of champions in the Prout Invitation 600. For the first two laps he ran last while indoor A.A.U. titlist Hugo Maioeco land Olympic 400-meter record breaker Arthur Wint threw elbows at each other...
...performances to date have won him an invitation to enter the Prout 600--probably the outstanding event on the Garden schedule. Berman, a good crowd runner with a fine finishing kick, will have his work cut out for him. The work will be provided by Olympic 400-meter record holder Arthur Wint of Jamaica, indoor and outdoor A.A.U. champions Hugo Maioeeo and George Rhoden, and Morris Curotta, a 400-meter finalist in the Olympics...
Waving a ludicrous 18-in. cigarette holder in her role of Fledermaus' bored, bemonocled Prince Orlofsky, Mezzo Stevens strutted center stage, put one foot on the prompter's box and waggled the holder at Box 23 of the Met's Diamond Horseshoe. Then, as Manager Bing winced in his box, she sang a switch on her song, Chacun a Son Gout...
...Strauss's waltz-time score, the Met orchestra never sounded better. As Dr. Falke (Fledermaus), the source of the operetta's intrigues, suave Baritone John Brownlee sang and acted with aplomb. Dressed to the teeth in a scarlet and white uniform and waving an 18-in. cigarette holder, Mezzo Soprano Risë Stevens brought the house down in her entrance as the bored host, Prince Orlofsky...
...Every Mistake in the Book." This change of scene is no greater than the change in the Post itself since 1933, when Eugene Meyer, longtime banker, Republican and holder of top Government jobs (RFC, War Finance Corp. and Federal Reserve Board) under every U.S. President from Wilson to Truman, bought the down-at-heel sheet from the late oil-rich playboy Ned McLean.* Meyer paid only $825,000 for a property valued five years earlier at more than...