Word: minore
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Often criticized for limiting his repertory. Van has been polishing three new concertos: Mozart's C Major (K. 503), Prokofiev's No. 3 and Schumann's A Minor. He originally planned to play the Mozart and Prokofiev with the New York Philharmonic later this month, but last week he changed his mind, announced he would ride with a surefire moneymaker, Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto...
...only two minor prizes: for an animated-cartoon dialogue between a cat and a lion extolling Calo Cat Food and for a series of still pictures backed up by a sophisticated ballad ("Some girls think summer means stockings goodbye. If that's your trick you're an unhip chick") plugging Chemstrand nylons. Unfortunately for U.S. admen, their prize TV pitchmen were not entered in the Venice competition. Explained Ray Goulding, who plays Bert Piel: "They don't dig beer over there. And it's hard to get a head on a bottle of Chianti...
...wouldn't say that, Mr. President," shot back Smith. "I've been playing in the minor leagues...
...wheel base 4 in. The car will move out during November, much sleeker, with less chrome than the '58 Mercury. There will be 35% more window space; instrument panels have been moved forward 6 in. for greater legroom. Ford's Edsel and Lincoln will get minor facelifts. About December the company will bring out a hybrid Ford with the body of a Fairlane and the roof of a Thunderbird. Called the Galaxy, it will sell for somewhat more than the '58 Fairlanes, which ranged from...
Side by side with Dr. Eichner's misadventures runs the dewy romance of Nurse Babs Mintner and her college-boy lover. This minor theme leads to the funniest scene of an often funny novel: the seduction of featherheaded Babs which takes place one rainy night in a drive-in theater and rages through three continuous showings of Wuthering Heights. There are other comic set pieces, notably a TV quiz called What's My Disease?, where panelists triumphantly identify gruesome samples of elephantiasis, icthyosis and multiple goiter...