Word: lating
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...friendly confines of a Y.M.C.A. meeting, TV Actor Ben Alexander, Dragnet's heavy-footed Sergeant Frank Smith, in real life a solid businessman and parent (three children), rapped out his private A.P.B. on a teen idol, the late Cinemactor James Dean: "This ruthless, selfish, egotistical young fool was nobody's idol until our children were told that he was. He was an All-American rebel against all manners, morals, family decency and Christian society...
...green freshmen, America the Beautiful, Camptown Races, Turkey in the Straw). Then, turning to his orchestra, Bernstein whipped it through a fine performance, his hips swaying, his arms flinging wide in a characteristic expression of musical frenzy. A youthful work (1897-1901) by Connecticut's late, largely self-taught Modernist Ives (an insurance broker most of his active life), the symphony was, as Lennie remarked, "original, eccentric, naive and as full of charm as an old lace valentine." With his own special mixture of eloquence, charm and ham, Bernstein thus gave the Philharmonic an excitement that...
Into Budapest streamed delegates from the Communist musical world to honor Hungary's late great Bela Bartok, once dismissed as a decadent "formalist," but restored to Red favor two years ago. The hit performers of last week's festival turned out to be not Communist musicians but a clutch of wandering Americans: Violinist Yehudi Menuhin and the men of the Juilliard String Quartet...
Menuhin, longtime Bartok specialist, opened the festival with the harsh and complex Sonata for Solo Violin. Menuhin let it be known that he will soon give the world premiere of a newly available early Bartok violin concerto,* which the composer dedicated to the late Hungarian-born violinist Stefi Geyer, with whom he was in love before his first marriage. Budapest audiences reserved their loudest cheers for the Juilliard group, which played Bartok's Third and Sixth quartets, plus works by Mozart, Haydn, Beethoven, the U.S.'s Walter Piston and Leon Kirchner. The audience yelled so loudly for encores...
...Spahn came back next day, and the Yankees rolled over and played dead -even Slugger Bauer, who had his record consecutive game hitting streak for World Series play snapped at 17. The hooknosed southpaw cleverly curved the Yankees until late afternoon shadows crept over the stadium, then opened up with a still hopping fast ball, retired 17 of the last 18 batters in fashioning a two-hit 3-0 shutout. Gloated Spahn: "Somebody got the impression that I can't throw anything but junk. Well, somebody is misinformed." Shortstop Tony Kubek let in the first Milwaukee run with...