Word: mc
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Kirsten Flagstad, 59, who interrupted her retirement to give a pair of concerts in Carnegie Hall and proved that she was still the greatest Wagnerian soprano of all. With the Symphony of the Air (formerly the NBC Symphony) under the direction of her longtime Accompanist Edwin Mc-Arthur, she sang four Wagner selections. Her voice had undeniably lost some of its freshness, but none of its security. She sang meltingly in two arias from Die Walkiire and the five Wesendonck Songs, with eloquence and sensuousness in the Love Death from Tristan. There was ringing power (even on her high...
David R. Evans '58, of Thayer Hall and Philadelphia, Pa., won the freshman competition and, John P. Scott '57, of Kirkland House and Dallas, Texas, will be assistant manager. J. Dicken Kirschten '57, of Lowell House and St. Louis, Mc., will manage the '59 freshmen...
Then came the final vote on the adoption of the closed rule. Democratic whips scurried into the aisles and cloakrooms for last-second pleas to wavering members. Les Arends, his grey hair ruffled, ran hurriedly around the chamber. John Mc Cormack snapped out orders. The rule was finally adopted...
...novel's outstanding quality is its cozy cousinship with a major American literary pattern-the novel of homecoming, of the haunting tie between small and big town. A few of the other cousins in this huge family, in addition to Marquand's book: Frank Norris' Mc-Teague, Willa Cather's A Lost Lady, Glenway Wescott's The Grandmothers, Thomas Wolfe's You Can't go Home Again, and, more recently, John Brooks's A Pride of Lions. Perhaps no other literature is filled with so many revisited home towns as the American...
...suite. Mr. Sam, weary of swapping offices, told Joe to stay on in the Speaker's rooms. After 32 years in the Senate, Georgia's patriarchal Walter George, senior Democrat since the 1952 defeat of Tennessee's fiery-eyed Kenneth McKellar, will win the prestige of Mc-Kellar's old title, Senate President pro tempore...