Word: minors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...prohibitionists already had their own man. The Prohibition Party's presidential nominee was Dr. Claude A. Watson, 62, onetime minor league ballplayer, now a Free Methodist preacher in Los Angeles. This was pink-cheeked Dr. Watson's second try; he polled 75,000 votes in 1944. He opened his 1948 campaign last week with a barnstorming tour of dry Kansas, flying in his own plane. He hoped to do better this time. Said he: "If the church people vote like they pray and if the prohibitionists stand fast . . . I will be the next President...
...gesture or tone of voice for the right emotion, all as dull as the day-before-yesterday's newspaper. Maureen O'Hara is as bosomy an example of pretty American girlhood as one could wish; Cornel Wilde is a fine young man, ambitious, though a little wild; while the minor characters could be transferred to another such movie as easily as a Ford part can be replaced. At best, they bustle through the plot using the lowest common denominator of human action, and at worst they are a bunch of Martians imitating home sapiens, having seen them once, from...
...Student Finance Committee spent $59 and the Curriculum and Tenure Committee accounted for $41. Fifty-one dollars was allocated to minor committee activities...
...chorus, mostly townspeople, had rehearsed weekly since September, but not until just before the festival did Usigli gather, orchestra and chorus together for an exhausting rehearsal. Says he: "Community singing is fine, but it is best for Christmas carols. A local chorus can do Gilbert & Sullivan, but the B Minor Mass-ah! that is another matter. I have to extract something from these young people that they never knew they had. Sometimes I think that if they make love the way they sing, it must be horrible...
Handel: Concerto in B Minor for Viola (William Primrose, viola, with the RCA-Victor Orchestra, Frieder Weissmann conducting; Victor, 5 sides). Handel seems to be making a comeback. This little-known, stately and graceful concerto was arranged by Henri Casadesus (uncle of Pianist Robert) in 1925, and is performed with spirit and fine tone by Primrose. Recording: excellent...