Word: noonday
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...become an important art event in the Southeast. Many banks decorate their lobbies and executive offices with art (Oregon's U.S. National Bank even hangs oils in its ladies' lounges). But New York's Manhattan Savings Bank goes them one better: it provides the public with noonday piano recitals and evening operas on its banking floors. At the urging of Opera Buff John M. Will, president of American Export Lines, the shipping firm last fall financed $135,000 worth of sets and costumes for a new Metropolitan Opera production...
...Capitol to the waiting microphones. The last time General of the Army Douglas MacArthur, 82, visited Capitol Hill was in 1951. during the angry aftermath of President Harry Truman's decision to fire him as commander in Korea. But last week the atmosphere was as warm as the noonday August sun, as Congress honored the soldier whose career spanned 52 years and three wars...
...last in Memorial Church's noonday concert series, which was also the best, provided an opportunity to hear the consummate artistry of Lois Pardue, the Church's associate organist. She has been playing this large instrument for several years now, and she knows intimately all its virtues and shortcomings...
...mystery guest was ensconced in his isolation booth, and the panelists on NBC's noonday quiz show Your First Impression tried to guess his identity from his spur-of-the-moment responses to a series of unfinished questions...
...countdown continued on the radio, the time dragged; a quarter-moon showed intermittently in the cloud-patched sky. At last the countdown dropped to seconds: ten, nine, eight . . . Finally, at exactly 11 p.m., the bomb exploded. The sky over Hawaii flared dazzling white, seemingly even brighter than noonday. The light turned pale lime green, then a delicate pink that darkened swiftly to a hideous meaty red. After seven minutes, the glow was gone, leaving the blue-black Pacific night. But when the moon next showed through the clouds, it was tinted an unnatural yellow...