Word: mentioned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hospital nurses. A law requiring vaccination of infants stood on the books for 40 years, but it was loosely enforced and seldom observed. Two years ago it was repealed. Why? Said one exasperated medical officer in Brighton last week: "The British are a pigheaded people, and the moment you mention compulsion they start fussing about liberty...
Charlie Weiss, inside right on Bruce Munro's Crimson soccer team, has been given All-American mention by the coaches' committee. He previously was named to the first All-New England team...
...censorship on all news from Korea. Colonel R. L. Thompson, Major General Matthew Ridgway's information boss, issued 1,600 words of regulations that forbade correspondents to describe armament and equipment, discuss the Army's "strength, efficiency, morale," identify troops by unit or location, or even to mention the presence of U.S. troops in any sector until the enemy knew it. Dispatches not only had to be "accurate in statement and in implication" but so written as not to "injure the morale of our forces or our allies and . . . not embarrass the U.S., its allies or neutral countries...
...almost any of its performances. No other house has interchangeable lyric tenors of the quality of Jussi Bjoerling and Richard Tucker: baritones such as Leonard Warren and Robert Merrill; bassos such as Jerome Hines and Cesare Siepi; and dramatic sopranos such as Helen Traubel and Kirsten Flagstad, not to mention the good looks and comic flair of a Patrice Munsel...
...would like to do Wozzeck, but he cannot afford right now to overlook the fate of another contemporary opera, Benjamin Britten's Peter Grimes, which was withdrawn after two seasons, so offended one opera lover that he spat in the box-office window. (Says John Gutman: "Whenever I mention Wozzeck, Bing threatens to put me in the box office." The Met still faces the problem of having to run a new production (cost: between $50,000 and $70,000) for at least five seasons to get its investment back...