Word: nine
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...biggest box-office draw of the summer has proved to be the second series, when all nine of Beethoven's symphonies and two of his piano concertos will be presented under Dr. Koussevitzky. The final series, like the first, includes works from Haydn to Hindemuth, with the Festival chorus under Robert Shaw, who last brought his talents before University audiences with his choir concert at the Music Symposium in May, directing one concert which is to feature the Mozart "Requiem...
...Reiter landed in Manhattan nine years ago, with $40 and a worn brief case containing all that remained of the first 33 years of his life. Watching the parade of jobless conductors on Manhattan's musical 57th Street, he decided that a scrapbook of glowing press notices in foreign languages would get him nowhere. He threw his scrapbook away...
Divorced. Marshall Field IV, 31, who is learning to be a journalist on his father's Chicago Sun; by Joanne Bass Field, 31, daughter of New Hampshire's onetime Governor Robert P. Bass; after nine years, two children; in Manchester...
...bank (or sock), their deficits by money owed the bank (many of them borrow at the start of the season). Last week, most of them thought they were losing money, but none knew for sure. This much they did know: a duck eats 25 pounds of feed in the nine weeks it takes to reach the five-pound-plus marketing size. At $100 a ton for feed, that is $1.25 for a duck which now brings around $1.22½ at the commission house...
...such fast maneuvering, slender, affable Ferd Owen, 58, has become the biggest mule and horse trader in the U.S. His natty suits, hickory cane, and diamond stickpin (shaped like a mule's head) belie his origin as the fifth of nine sons of a poor Missouri farmer. Ferd went to school for only six months. At 15, he went into business for himself as a "road trader," driving all over the Midwest in a covered wagon and swapping animals with farmers along the road. That sharpened his trader's eye; now he can tell an animal...