Word: horning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...after a recent three-year retirement, Dominguin (57 ears in 29 fights this year) dispatched his first two bulls with some trouble, did not attempt to delight the crowd with his show-stopping telefono routine-leaning casually on the bull's head and pretending to talk into its horn. But Dominguin, facing his third and final bull, still had won no ears, while Ordonez had picked up three new ones. Dominguin was badly gored in the right thigh, landed in a Madrid hospital. Two days later, Ordonez was in a nearby bed after catching a "less than grave" goring...
...comeback champion of U.S. business so far in 1959 is a horn-handed engineer who has a word of Art Shay advice for every faltering firm: "You must compete in areas where you are prepared to compete." With this credo, Harold Eugene Churchill, 56, climbed to the presidency of Studebaker-Packard Corp. and led the company back from the brink of bankruptcy. Unlike other auto chief executives, Churchill does not compete as a supersalesman or financial whiz. He came up as an oldtime, dirty-fingernail mechanic, who still loves to tinker under an open hood. Realizing that S.P. could...
...Hundred Years of Brass Music (The Chamber Brass Players; Classic Editions, mono). Two trumpets, a trombone, a French horn and a tuba huff their way through the once enormously popular brass works of several composers, some famed, most of them forgotten-Tielman Susato, Giovanni Gabrieli, Antony Hoiborne, Johann Petzold, Henry Purcell. The burnished sound is properly refulgent, and the flowering, agile compositions themselves will come as a pleasant surprise to many a listener accustomed to the statelier, stuffier uses of modern brass...
...Five Pennies (Dena; Paramount). The basic trouble with movie biographies of famed jazz musicians is that the camera is not a horn. What matters about the average music man is the music he makes; what he does with the rest of his life is sometimes too dull for words or too rich for the censor. And since good music is seldom enough to make up for a bad story, the smart moviemaker tries to strengthen his corn section with a couple of side men. In this case, the added attractions are Danny Kaye and Louis ("Satchmo") Armstrong, who have...
...Vian, an early-flowering French beatnique with a strong commercial sense, went on to write hit songs, cabaret acts, serious plays. He even translated some books that were actually American: General Omar Bradley's A Soldier's Story, The Three Faces of Eve, Young Man with a Horn, The Man with the Golden Arm. But Vian's greatest success was still The Spitter, and to ensure accuracy in the movie version, the producer sent Director Michel Gast to the U.S. to soak up atmosphere. The outlandish results seemed more than satisfactory to French critics. "Nothing shocks...