Word: layoff
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Music Center's first season after a three-year war layoff, Koussevitzky & staff have handpicked 410 musicians, the majority under 30, from the U.S., Latin America and Canada. The summer's $100,000 budget is paid off by tuition fees (averaging $120 a student), ticket sales to festival concerts, and gifts. More than 100 students are there under the G.I. Bill of Rights. Aaron Copland, Koussevitzky's assistant director, trains eight young composers. Koussevitzky himself teaches three people how to conduct. At weekend concerts he listens carefully to their conducting efforts. Says he: "I see if they...
...West, the iceman's unattainable ideal, was back on stage after a year's layoff. In her new play, Ring Twice Tonight, she opened in Long Beach, Calif., then rumbled northward, hoped to last all the way to Broadway. Her role: an undercover agent for the FBI. Supporting cast: two maids and 15 men. Covering her added attractions: two negligees (one at a time)-one in orange and dove grey, the other just lacy orange, backed with white satin here & there, and here & there...
...will be the big arm of "little train" Robbie Sturgeon on which the fate of the high-flying Plympton Street pulverizers will rest. The train is expected to be in top shape for the contest after a seven-month layoff. He is, of course, undefeated in league competition...
Resuming spring practice sessions after a week's layoff, Dick Harlow and his staff are back on Soldiers Field again, trying to whip up a satisfactory advance version of the Crimson entry in the Great Antumnal Madness...
Immediate resumption of formal football might find Harvard in an embarrassing position anyway. Princeton, after a short layoff, is back in the formal ring and faces Yale at the end of the season. Current odds are heavily on the Eli. If Harvard went back in the running, odds would be even more heavy against the Harlowmen...