Word: mets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Met over luncheon or at a cocktail party, Kenya's handsome, articulate Tom Mboya is one of Africa's most winning personalities. But in his campaign to force Kenya's whites to surrender their political control of the fertile British East African colony, Tom Mboya shows a steely contempt for moderatjon and half measures. His platform: complete electoral equality for Kenya's blacks and whites by 1960, common schools for all races and a ban on further white immigration to Kenya...
...Nikita Khrushchev packed his extra truthbrush, someone else beat him to the U.S.'s broad, well-woofed welcome mat. In New York Harbor's Gravesend Bay, the new Holland-America liner Rotterdam met the Dutch destroyer Gelderland, transferred a special passenger: plumply pretty Princess Beatrix, 21, heiress presumptive to the throne of The Netherlands. Under cloudbursts of ticker tape, she was driven up lower Broadway, incidentally passing over the site where marooned Dutch sailors spent the winter of 1613 as the first white inhabitants of Manhattan. In the U.S. for ten days, the princess would lunch with President...
...with hopes of immortal love. I was building a little masterpiece. Then I fell in love with my masterpiece and I married her. I created Callas, and she repaid me with a stab in the back. She was a fat, clumsily dressed woman, a refugee, a gypsy when I met her. She had not a cent nor any prospect for a career. I had to rent her a room at a hotel and had to put up $700 so she could remain in Italy. I never exploited her. Can one exploit one's wife...
...juice. It was a real stompin' brand of music." Charlie's father taught his son the guitar, and at twelve Charlie was playing on a local radio show. World War II saw Charlie in Special Services, touring Europe as an Army showman. One day in Paris he met the legendary Belgian-born gypsy guitarist, Django Reinhardt, then and there decided to become a jazz musician...
...young musician's reputation had reached the U.S.; Arturo Toscanini wanted a harpist for the Metropolitan Opera Company, and imported him, says Salzedo, "like a piece of cheese." Salzedo stayed at the Met for four years, then organized the U.S.'s first harp ensemble, later set off to tour Europe with a flutist and a cellist. After a stint in the French army in World War I (wounded in action). Salzedo returned to the U.S. and got to work making the harp something better than one of those "extra" instruments rarely heard outside full-dress philharmonic orchestras...