Word: mets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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While Secretary of State Dulles and other U.S. representatives were still in Paris at the NATO meeting (TIME, Dec. 24) trying to persuade the Western allies to maintain NATO's military strength, Harold Stassen met in Washington with newsmen in a confidential briefing session. From that session came the rash of news stories that seemed doubly authoritative because Harold Stassen, in his anonymity, had masked himself as the voice of U.S. policy...
Back from his first expedition, Siple re-entered Allegheny College at Meadville, Pa. as a sophomore, soon met a pretty young freshman. Ruth Johannesmeyer. Carrying almost twice the normal academic load to make up for the years he had lost in the antarctic, busy writing a book (A Boy Scout with Byrd) and lecturing before dazzled Scouts and service clubs, he carried on a desultory courtship. But one night he was enticed to a college dance, and as he struggled happily through the steps, a sudden thought struck him: "My God, so this is why people like to dance...
...Manager Rudolf Bing to fire Sordello-or so Sordello says. Her failure to appear in Lucia caused a near riot of disappointed ticket holders who had to be quieted by the cops. And two days later, Sordello got a registered letter from Manager Bing dismissing him from the Met. "Miss Callas," Sordello summed up, "wields tremendous power, and I've been a victim...
...York Giants were off and running toward their first National Football League championship in 18 years. Then they stumbled, lost to Washington and Cleveland. When they met the Philadelphia Eagles on the rain-soaked turf of Connie Mack Stadium last week, the Giants had their choice of winning the Eastern Division title for the first time since 1946 or slithering sloppily toward second place. The Giants chose...
Dinosaur's Ear. The first network broadcast was delivered through a microphone that looked like a dinosaur's hearing aid, but the talent added up to a four-hour 1926 spectacular: Dr. Walter Damrosch and the New York Symphony, Weber and Fields, the Met's Titta Ruffo, and the dance bands of Ben Bernie, George Olsen and Vincent Lopez. In the following years, while the unseen U.S. audience grew from 5 million radio sets to 127 million radios and 38 million TV sets, NBC kept the air buzzing with such big names and pioneering feats...