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...concert grand known as "Old 199." Because they pass it from one to another while touring in the U.S., they refer to its current player by a composite name. Graffman & Co. today are in the forefront of a group of young U.S. pianists who have recently made the perilous leap from prodigy to professional artist...
Clearly, the President had determined to get going on everything he could do to move the U.S. into outer space. But there was something more important. "What the world needs today," he said, "even more than a giant leap into outer space is a giant step toward peace...
Moscow reminded the world that Russia's leap into space has implications beyond the scientific and the military. A poem in the Russian magazine Krokodil indicates that creation, from a Communist point of view, is at last under new management. Concluding verse...
...scrimmage, keeping the ball until actually in the process of being tackled by Crimson left end Hal Keohane. He then lateraled off to left-halfback McTigue, who had been trailing the play. A timely block took care of one potential Crimson tackler, and McTigue eluded another with a dramatic leap into the air. All-in-all the play covered 47 yards...
...left it with a papal rescript in 1941 when she finally realized that she "was no more fitted to be a nun than to be an acrobat." After 28 years behind cloister walls, she was almost equally unfitted not to be a nun. Her bestselling first book. I Leap Over the Wall (TIME, Jan. 30, 1950), had a certain Rip van Winkle-ish appeal: it drew the portrait of a woman trained in the leisurely graces of pre-World War I society trying to cope with the rough-and-tumble era of World War II, after nearly three decades...