Word: mason
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Colonies to the Americans (because the colonists no longer feared French domination). Even more at odds with the U.S. notion, the French biographers insist that Freemasonry played a big role in the 1776 upheaval. Lafayette, they report, was distrusted by Washington until he became a member of an American Masonic lodge; thereafter, he was a young brother, or "an adopted son" to the first American commander in chief, who was himself a top-level Mason...
...final work, Rameau's third Concert en trio, Brown fittingly used a wooden cross flute actually owned by Johann Quantz, the greatest Baroque flute virtuoso, and lent by the Boston Fine Arts Museum from its Mason Collection of Instruments. Its tone is uniquely mellow and velvety, and well points up the fact that in the arts there is no progress, but only change. No gain is made without an equal loss...
...says that real-estate dealers are today at the point where auto dealers found themselves 30 years ago; they are going to have to handle trade-in houses to stay in business, because "we're running out of first-home buyers right now." Agrees Federal Housing Administrator Norman Mason: trade-ins would open up "a great new market of perhaps 60 million Americans who would like to move if only they could sell the house they already...
...Charlie Parker's Air Conditioning, the Modern Jazz Quartet's Django, oldtime Trumpeter Papa Celestin's When the Saints Go Marching In, legendary Cornetist Bix Beiderbecke's Singin' the Blues, and a rousing number called I'm All Bound 'Round with the Mason Dixon Line, by the day's interviewee, Dixieland Trumpeter Jimmy McPartland. Between numbers, Conover quietly and succinctly tells about the next record or gently nudges his guest to talk about his life and times. "While they're learning to admire Americans as performers, listeners around the world...
...Rock, Dallas, many a bus driver calmly removed signs directing Negro passengers to the rear. In the North there was a crackle of excitement: newspapers front-paged the story, and editorial writers pontificated about constitutional law and the new need for wisdom and forbearance on both sides of the Mason-Dixon line...