Word: leonarde
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...just a moment or so, there was a pained silence from British spacemen. Then there were howls of indignation. Cried Secretary Leonard Carter of the British Interplanetary Society: "We believe the first flight to the moon will take place within the next 20 years and that Professor Woolley will live to see it ... Future Astronomers Royal will spend most of their time in space observatories and not in Hurstmonceux [home of the Royal Greenwich Observatory]." Added Interplanetary Society Council Member Kenneth Gatland: "Space travel is inevitable . . . Toward the end of the century we will get manned vehicles which will orbit...
Composer-Conductor Leonard Bernstein raises his baton this week on CBS's Omnibus to conduct Handel's Messiah. But a great many of his viewers are certain to be disappointed. They would much rather hear talented Lennie Bernstein talk about music than play or conduct...
Medea in Milan. Harvard-bred (A.B., '39) Leonard Bernstein first flashed into musical prominence as a composer (Fancy Free, Trouble in Tahiti, On the Town), and is regarded as one of the most talented of U.S. conductors. Two years ago, with five days' preparation, he directed Milan's La Scala orchestra in the seldom-staged Medea of Cherubini, starring Maria Callas. To composing and conducting, he added teaching at Tanglewood and Brandeis University, spends his spare moments with his wife, Actress Felicia Montealegre, and three-year-old daughter. He worries that he may be scattering his talent...
...Benedictine Brother Marinus, 41, of St. Paul's Abbey, Newton, N.J., received the Korean Order of Military Merit Ulchi with Gold Star from the Korean ambassador at a ceremony in Washington, and reminisced about how he won it. Five years ago, as Captain Leonard P. LaRue of the S.S. Meredith Victory, he was freighting supplies to Korea. "The once fine city of Hungnam was gasping in its death throes. Five unshaven Army colonels came aboard. 'Captain, we need your assistance,' one said. 'Thousands of men, women and children are here. We have to get them...
...engine. Three minutes later one of the airliners heard: "Springfield, are you reading 476? We have a bad engine fire." That was the last message from Flight 476. Two minutes later (12:22) the stricken airplane, trailing flames and smoke, was seen heading for the Army field at Fort Leonard Wood. Just short of Runway 14 the right wing came off, and the airplane crashed in heavy timber, killing all passengers (27) and crew (three...