Word: lincolnisms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Along with plans to exchange its elegant but drafty old home for a modern theater at Manhattan's projected Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, the Metropolitan Opera is busy with another building program. Aside from the great names on its roster-Maria Callas. Victoria de los Angeles, Richard Tucker, Mario Del Monaco, Leonard Warren, Cesare Siepi-it is adding to its solid second rank by bringing in exciting newcomers who, more than the established stars, are making this a memorable season. Some of the best of the new voices...
...mile in ten months, but Australia's Herb Elliott, 19, grabbed an early lead in a race at Melbourne, sprinted through a spectacular 57.9-sec. last quarter to nip the 4-min. mile at 3:59.9, became the fourth Aussie (after John Landy, Jim Bailey and Mervyn Lincoln) to turn the trick...
LAGGING EDSEL SALES are shaking up Ford's high command. Vice President James J. Nance, 56, who formerly bossed Studebaker-Packard, will slip into driver's seat at Edsel division. It will be merged into the Lincoln-Mercury division, which he also heads...
...along with the Third Avenue "El" and Lincoln Square, this world is to yield to progress. But it will take longer to vanquish the hurdy-gurdy spirit of the pushcart markets, Robert Moses notwithstanding...
...stations, and 47 more are under construction. Several, like WFLN in Philadelphia, WEAW in Evanston, Ill., have expanded to AM to make their outlets better-paying propositions. Biggest single FM boom is taking place in Los Angeles, which boasts, as of this week, 20 FM stations. Both Lincoln and Continental are advertising FM dashboard sets, and a fortnight ago Mutual Broadcasting System announced plans to acquire seven FM stations, the legal limit on single ownership. Boston's WCRB, which pioneered in stereophonic sound, is offering a record 128 hours of concert music a week, and Westinghouse Broadcasting...