Word: nan
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...climax of his winter conducting season, Arturo Toscanini picked Beethoven's soaring Missa Solemnis. Following his baton in Carnegie Hall last week were Basso Jerome Hines, Tenor Eugene Conley, and Mezzo-Soprano Nan Merriman as soloists, the members of the NBC Symphony and the Robert Shaw Chorale. Amidst this phalanx of well-known U.S. artists was one soloist few Americans had ever so much as heard of: a 28-year-old Toronto soprano named Lois Marshall. From now on, listeners are going to hear a lot more...
...Symphony (Sat. 5:45 p.m., NBC). Toscanini conducting Beethoven's Missa Solemnis, with Singers Lois Marshall, Nan Merriman, Eugene Conley, Jerome Hines...
...only owner's voice. His nephew, Charles Thieriot, 39, was taking a more active interest in the Chronicle as boss of the paper's TV station, and his younger brother, Ferdinand Peter Thieriot, 32, was on the job as a circulation executive. The biggest stockholder of all, Nan Tucker McEvoy, 33, George Cameron's niece (and wife of Reader's Digest Editor Dennis McEvoy), was also taking an interest in the Chronicle, where she has worked off & on as a reporter. Newsmen had suspected that as their interest grew, Editor Smith would have had more & more...
...Symphony (Sat. 6:30 p.m., NBC). Toscanini conducting Act II of Orpheus and Eurydice, with Nan Merriman and Barbara Gibson...
...Joker. Moreover-and this sent Britons cabling home for instructions-Russia would accept payment for her wares in local currency and spend the money in the country of origin. Peking Banker Nan Han-chen, the chief Chinese delegate, was equally specific about Chinese wants. Said one Briton: "These people [the Chinese] didn't come here to shoot off hot air, but to do business." Down in the fine print was the joker: the West must end its embargo against the Soviet bloc, and especially against Red China...