Word: max
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...critic of Paris' Le Monde, who thought that he had "never heard anything more excellent." In Barcelona audiences cheered their approval of the orchestra's classical repertory. For Budapest-born Conductor George Szell, the greatest recognition came in Vienna. where that dean of critics, grumpy old (83) Max Graf, who knew Szell as a boy, voiced one of his rare, muted raves. "The sounds," he said, "were good indeed...
...buying, deal with a welter of conflicting and often obsolete state regulations. Road building has always been blighted by graft, ranging from political kickbacks for contracts to small bribes to persuade local police to let the huge machines move over restricted roads to their job sites. Says Pittsburgh Contractor Max Harrison: "When I started out in this business in 1923 everyone connected with it was a crook." While the crooks have become fewer as more and more contracts have been let by competitive bidding, graft and political jobs for incompetents are sure to plague the federal highway program. Road-building...
...Supreme Court last week dealt with a familiar constitutional issue: the Fifth Amendment. Before the court was the case of New York City Attorney Max Halperin, convicted in 1955 of tax-fixing conspiracy* and attempting to corrupt witnesses before a grand jury. Before his indictment Halperin had declined, under the Fifth, to testify against himself before a grand jury. Because the trial judge permitted this use of the Fifth to be cited against him at his trial, the Supreme Court, on a relatively clear point of law, ordered a new trial...
These three from the sea make their latest appearance with more than 150 other works of art in Greek Sculpture, text by Reinhard Lullies, photographs by Max Hirmer (Abrams; $12.50), a handsome book that presents the entire range of Greek sculpture, from its origins to its final decadence, through Greek originals exclusively, instead of the usual mixture with spiritless Roman copies. In form, these figures are exactly what the ancient Greeks saw. But the note originally struck is muted: the brilliant colors with which the Greeks painted their statues have rubbed off the marble, and the burnished-gold...
...psychoanalysis, and such possessions as 50 broad-shouldered suits, a $4,000 diamond-and-star-sapphire ring and a solid gold lighter for his long, fat cigars. The last time he was on somebody else's payroll (in 1954 when he split with Imogene Coca and Producer Max [Your Show of Shows] Liebman) he earned $25,000 a week. Since then, as his own producer with a payroll of 60-odd employees and other show costs, 34-year-old, Yonkers-born Caesar has been collecting $106,000 for each show...