Word: m
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Jack said that he felt miserable about the whole thing. Added he: "My mistake was to let her rise. The only thing she cared about was fan mail and publicity-not about the show. Friday may well have been her last time on the show. I'm not a fraud. I won't say nicely and politely that yes, she will come back from time to time. What does she want? Her own show and more money. Well, she had her own show right on our show. This is the greatest overbuilding job I've ever done...
...tension told in the first round. Young challengers fell fast, and suddenly the old pros seemed to be playing by themselves. California's Beverly Hanson, a lanky, bespectacled stylist, snuggled into her candy-striped long Johns and shot a surprising par 72. "I'm a hot-weather golfer," drawled Beverly, "but thanks to this dandy underwear, I've had a very good winter." Right behind her, only a stroke off, plodded the broad-beamed champion herself-affable Patty Berg, 40, seven-time winner and still favorite despite a painful trick knee...
...Reiner is as tough on visiting artists (a current bitter antagonist: Artur Rubinstein) as on his own men. He rarely forgives an error. When annoyed, he is apt to reduce his always small beat even further, which once prompted a cellist to bring a telescope to rehearsal ("I'm looking for the beat," he explained). "To Reiner," says a man who has played under him, "the orchestra is like a piano. If a key sticks, he kicks...
...Harvard Glee Club ranged themselves in a semicircle on Boston's Jamaica Plain and began to serenade the ladies in the lighted window above. They warbled songs like Mother, I'm Slowly Dying and The Man in the Moon's Ball. Midway through, they were interrupted by a band of town boys who made rude noises on wind instruments, unhitched the Harvards' horses and sent them trudging on foot back to Cambridge. That was in Harvard's musical infancy. Last week the glee club assembled again (present membership: 135) to celebrate its centennial with...
...25th year as glee club conductor. Woody himself went out for the club as a Harvard freshman, was firmly turned down by Conductor Davison, who told him: "With your ear, you ought to be playing drums in the band." He nevertheless wangled a job as assistant accompanist, earned an M. A. in music and a job in the music department before succeeding Davison...