Word: mixes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...words, even if they are sung in English." Wagnerian Soprano Helen Traubel, just finished a two-week engagement in a Chicago nightclub, made public a letter she had received from Bing, and thoughtfully appended her answer. Bing had written that opera and popular singing "do not really seem to mix very well" and suggested: "Perhaps you would prefer to give the Metropolitan a 'miss' for a year or so until you may possibly feel that you want again to change back to the more serious aspects of your art." Singer Trau-bel's indignant reply: "I will...
...Goodwill, were making port in Honolulu at the end of a 2,225-mile race from San Pedro, Calif.* Likewise, there are still some big, venerable and fairly standoffish yacht clubs, where the dues run to several hundred dollars a year, where it takes a crew of barmen to mix the drinks, and an orchestra plays, Meyer Davis-style, for the evening's dancing. But there are hundreds of other yacht clubs nowadays which offer the essentials-a place to moor a boat, a place for storing sails-for $25 a year or even less...
...heart, she was helping to dedicate station KUHT, the first noncommercial education TV station in the U.S. Commissioner Hennock rejoiced that, after 3½ years of work, "we're showing the scoffers, we're showing the world" that "education must have its own stations. You cannot mix free education with the profit motive...
...rise & fall of Margayya, a proud, overimaginative moneylender who keeps bank each day under a banyan tree. Margayya makes a good living from small loans, but he is not satisfied; he dreams of real wealth. The local priest advises Margayya to woo the gods with a special rite: mix the ashes of a red lotus with milk drawn from a smoke-colored cow. Sure enough, not long after, Margayya meets Dr. Pal, a sociologist who has written a book called Bed-Life, or the Science of Marital Happiness. The first chapters make Margayya blush, but they also make him want...
Burma, former British colony (pop. 16.8 million) which became an independent republic in 1948, has no realistic control over its northeast regions, where it has a long frontier with Red China and Laos. Here Burmese, Red Chinese and Li Mi's Nationalist Chinese mix like the colors of a dangerous kaleidoscope. If they can fight their way to the Mekong River at the border of Laos and Burma, the Viet Minh Communist forces of Ho Chi Minh will be in a position to strengthen the anti-government forces in Burma...