Word: max
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...most of the experience that makes him a valuable boss for the Met today-the tedious and complicated work of engaging artists, scheduling rehearsals, programming, and overseeing ticket sales. He also met two of the men who are now his right and left hands at the Met: Artistic Administrator Max Rudolf, 48, and General Assistant John Gutman, 48, who in the old days used to drop into the Darmstadt theater as music critic for the Berlin Börsen-Courier. Rudolf, then a conductor, recalls Bing and wife Nina as "a handsome couple," Bing himself as "a man I liked...
...Manhattan's lower East Side, in a hired hall where such jazzmen as "Wild Bill" Davison and Max Kaminsky blow their horns, the leaders of the U.S. Communist Party assembled last week to tootle their stuck whistles. It was the party's 15th biennial convention. There were placards to set the theme. "Hail the Socialist Soviet Union, Guardian of World Peace," said one. "Seat Red China in the U.N." "Mail Birthday Greetings to Our Leader, William Z. Foster...
...Died. Max Beckmann, 66, whose expressionistic canvases brought him recognition as one of Germany's best painters; of a heart attack; in Manhattan...
...Died. Max Reiter, 45, Jewish refugee, from Italian Fascism, who in 1938 left a successful career as conductor on the Continent (Berlin, Munich, Rome, Milan), came to the U.S. with only $40, within five years shaped the San Antonio Symphony into a major orchestra; of a heart attack; in San Antonio...
...year-old disciple of Henry James. There was nothing precious about young (24) John Hawkes's The Cannibal, a sometimes powerful experimental novel that tried to capture the nightmarish quality of Germany's disintegration in defeat. The Harper Prize of $10,000 went to Debby, Max Steele's sentimental first novel about a bemused little woman with a big heart and a feeble mind. A shirt manufacturer from Iowa, Richard Bissell, wrote A Stretch on the River, a first novel about Mississippi River boatmen, and got as much tang into his account as anyone since Mark Twain...