Word: leonarde
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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From Cuba, Gossipist Leonard Lyons reported upon a merry encounter with old friends: "The Havana tourist season hasn't started yet. 'That's why this is a good time for working,' Ernest Hemingway had told us earlier, at lunch at his home. On the wall was the mounted skin of the lion Mary Hemingway had shot in Africa. No bullet hole was evident. 'I'm almost embarrassed,' she smiled. 'I shot him while he was running away...
...buff, Rexroth got together with Saxophonist Bruce Lippincott and worked out a sketchy jazz accompaniment for his new poem, Thou Shalt Not Kill, a lengthy dirge for long-lost friends, mostly poets: "What happened to Robinson who used to stagger down Eighth Street, dizzy with solitary gin? ... Where is Leonard who thought he was a locomotive? . . . What became of Jim Oppenheim? . . . Where is Sol Funaroff? What happened to Potamkin? . . . One sat up all night talking to H. L. Mencken and drowned himself in the morning." Then the Rexroth verse turns to a super Bohemian and aman who was also...
...some time now, two extraordinary institutions-the New York Philharmonic Orchestra and Leonard Bernstein-have been at loose ends. The Philharmonic has suffered from an excess of guest batons and a lack of inspired leadership. Leonard...
Freewheeling. In Davenport, Iowa, the hub caps stolen from Leonard Grutzmacher's car were returned to him with a note reading: "Sorry, these aren't the right size...
...minor one. Of 68 conference members answering a poll on 1958 business, most agreed that business would slip a bit until well into 1958, with an upturn starting late in the year. Only five expected a steady rise throughout the year; only four predicted a continuous decline. Said Leonard Smith, commercial research manager for U.S. Rubber Co.: "This is one of those modern recessions where no one feels much pain. I am convinced that it's not going to be very deep...