Word: horned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...contract. To develop the northern claims, they set up Algom, of which Hirshhorn owns a million shares (36%), Preston East Dome 1,250,000 (45%), Hirshhorn's friends another 100,000. and the public only 400,000 shares. Last week, with Algom stock selling at around $16, Hirsh horn's direct and indirect holdings were worth about $20 million on paper...
...concerto grosso, this work is in a sense the first real solo concerto for keyboard, owing to the general prominence and the extended cadenza allotted to it. McIntosh's runs were as even as pearls, and he exerted admirable dynamic restraint throughout (his versatility even extended to playing the horn in the other works). The initial orchestral tempo was sluggish, but McIntosh picked it up in his cadenza and Greenebaum kept it for the closing tutti. The slow movement, for the soloists only, should have had, to be authentic, a cello doubling the bottom line...
Pioneering as the first American jazz bandleader ever to go jamming around Israel, drum-busting Vibraharpist Lionel Hampton tortured his tom-toms in Tel Aviv, had frenetic listeners in the aisles stomping out the Horn, Israel's most popular folk dance. After one concert, during which some 100 cops hooked arms to bar gate-crashers from the hall, rhythm-happy Hampton laid down his drumsticks and gasped: "Man, in a country that's younger than jazz itself, these Israeli cats have sure growed fast...
...George officials broadcast warnings for residents to stay off the streets. When apprehension was at its height, well-meaning AECmen stopped motorists on the lonely road between Las Vegas and St. George and suggested that they have their cars washed-just in case. The suggestion shook even horn-hard miners. When sheep died (probably of malnutrition), their trouble was also blamed on radioactivity...
...month to make a tough decision: after eight years as announcer on NBC's Kraft TV Theater, Herlihy got the choice of signing an exclusive contract or leaving the show. He decided to stick with his other accounts (Colgate, Oldsmobile, French's mustard, Hoffman's beverages, Horn & Hardart...