Word: host
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Dartmouth captured the Eastern Intercollegiate Ski Association crown yesterday by defeating host Middlebury, champions for the past five years, by less than a point...
Typical Town? With Art Linkletter as host, and the stars twinkling on and off in a series of filmed interviews, Beverly Hills was jokingly presented as a fabled little hamlet whose 600 doctors and 500 lawyers make it "the sickest and crookedest town in the country." Then, brushing aside the jokes, the show tried to present Beverly Hills as a typical American town-and merely succeeded in stripping it of its glamour. Introduced were a churchgoing father of four (Jimmy Stewart), a home-loving, family-raising couple (Rory Calhoun and Lita Baron), a beauty who spends her time quizzing kids...
Rolling into Cleveland to shake a baton at the local symphony orchestra this week, Britain's spleeny maestro, Sir Thomas Beecham, 76, chomped a 60? cigar and gleefully spat in his host city's eye. Asked how he liked Composer Frederick Delius' Brigg Fair, a featured dish on Beecham's symphonic menu, Sir Thomas said: "It's a very bad piece of music. They'll like it in Cleveland...
...saga of the Scythian shepherd who vaultingly subdued half of Asia and Africa is too brutally simple for true drama. With its host of bloody conquests and dearth of inner conflict, with its portrayal of one who toppled realms like tenpins, it scarcely provides even variations on a single theme. As Tamburlaine sweeps on, nothing interrupts his conquests and cruelties but his Marlovian sense of physical beauty and his feeling for Zenocrate, the captive princess whom he loved and lost...
Forgoing his gimpy English, the President-elect talked to Ike in Portuguese, translated by Brazil's Washington Ambassador Joāo Carlos Muniz. After breakfast Kubitschek bade farewell to his host, and raced back to the Brazilian commercial airliner that had brought him from Rio. Stops ahead on his preinauguration tour: Washington, New York, London, Paris, Bonn, Brussels, The Hague, Rome, the Vatican, Madrid, Lisbon-all in 17 hectic days...