Word: minuses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...freshman A football team will be minus its triple-threat tailback Walter Stahura this afternoon when the Yardlings meet Dartmouth in the season's opener at 2 p.m. on Soldiers Field...
...Yardling football team, in past years stocked with a surplus of outstanding high school and prep school stars, this season faces the prospect of a plain, mediocre year minus such leaders...
...Steinbeck; whose earlier fondness for battered ground vehicles crept out in some of his books (e.g., The Grapes of Wrath, The Wayward Bus), disclosed that he is about to switch to a more advanced means of transportation. Stopping over on the French Riviera on his way to Italy, Steinbeck, minus his mustache "for a change," announced that he will write a play about flying saucers, because these strange craft "symbolize . . . the disquiet of the world today." Added he soberly: "From this idea, I let my heroes go in their attempt to escape the earth. They don't make...
Toil & Trouble. In Manhattan, Author Meets the Critics-minus one critic-came on the air for a discussion of William Faulkner's A Fable. Author Frank (Five Gentlemen of Japan) Gibney arrived ten minutes late, breathing hard and blaming the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad. Gibney's first comment was that he thought most readers would have difficulty understanding A Fable. In reply, Critic Irving Howe took a surprising potshot at his own publisher. Random House President Bennett Cerf, who also doubles as a humorist and a panelist on What's My Line? Noting that Publisher...
Listener's Digest is subtitled "The exciting new short cut to great music." The cut is not only short but unkind: the first movement of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony (in a ragged performance by the Hallé Orchestra under John Barbirolli) runs a mere three minutes-minus the development section, where, in effect, the composer explains what his music is about. Overall cut: from 32 minutes to 14. Other emasculated masterpieces: Franck's D Minor Symphony (38 to 14), Brahms's First Symphony (38 to 15), Beethoven's "Emperor" Concerto...