Word: orlandos
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...clean as their well-scrubbed faces. Moreover, they sang with ease and confidence, never wavered from pitch, and phrased with the subtlety of master musicians. With heavier vocal underpinnings from 18 grownup "gentlemen of the choir," they sang a cycle of English church music from the days of Orlando Gibbons (1583-1625) and Henry Purcell to the present. Then, sometimes with the older choristers, sometimes without, they sang their way through a glowing repertory of folk songs and madrigals...
...Mexican golfers in the second annual LIFE and P.G.A.-sponsored National Golf Day for the benefit of U.S.O. and the National Golf Fund. Among the 10,000-odd golfers who beat Boros with the aid of handicaps were General Omar Bradley (81-12-69) and a six-year-old Orlando, Fla. boy named Bernie Bender...
...delete titles; 4) if there are four (names, make an initial of the second; 5) if the name is still too long, make an initial of the fourth. Thus, Antonio Orlando Sanchidrian Palmero, a charter subscriber to LIFE EN ESPAÑOL, became A. O. Sanchidrian P., for purposes of his file card...
Gift Shop Proprietor Joy Hawley, who had experience with direct-mail advertising, wrote personal letters to hundreds of residents of Orlando and nearby Winter Park. She and her gift-shop partner, Helen Ryan, decided to call anyone who gave $5,000 or more an angel. A benefactor gives $1,000, a patron $500, and so on to associate members, who give $5. Last year the letters brought in $37,000 toward this season's budget...
Conductor Chardon, a onetime associate conductor of the Minneapolis Symphony, under Dimitri Mitropoulos, now has a fully professional ensemble for his three-month season. Orlando, the only U.S. city under 100,000 to support such an expensive orchestra, is pleased as punch with his results. It hopes to double its budget soon, and confidently expects that, before too long, its orchestra will rank among the best dozen...