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...sold-out concert at Chicago's Civic Opera House, celebrating the famed choir's soth anniversary, such a thing as a flat tone was unthinkable. The program, which ranged from Palestrina to Stravinsky, produced a fortissimo reaction from the music critics. "Cool, thin, silver tone . . . timeless patina," said the Tribune. Said Paulist O'Malley: "It was one of the finest concerts I've ever conducted...
Grapefruit & Moonglow. Palm Springs, a gaudy, man-made oasis, has 674 swimming pools, 285 hotels and motels, grapefruit-laden trees, an abundance of gold-rinsed blondes, superb weather, and the unmistakable patina of Hollywood plastered like lipstick on the desert. Palm Springs is not Ike's cup of tea, and he had to fight for the vacation he wanted: rest, golf, fresh air and privacy. When he and Mamie stepped off the Columbine at the moon-bathed Palm Springs Airport, a crowd of 3,000 was on hand to greet them. But plans to deck the streets in bunting...
...Rudier. Maillol, Renoir, Bourdelle were all his clients; Rodin would have no other caster. Today, such outstanding European moderns as Henry Moore, Jean Arp, Alberto Giacometti and Ossip Zadkine are on his list. An expert explains why: "Rudier is unique. He is an artist. He produces a grain and patina almost like human skin. The bronze seems alive...
...backs of chairs, talking business, business, business, and spitting, spitting, spitting, while the women sat in a room apart and tittled and tattled by the hour. She made notes of their crude, fantastic speech, little suspecting that age and custom would lend much of it such a patina that such a horrendous phrase as "go the whole hog" would be used, in 1949, by a descendant of the Duke of Marlborough, addressing the Chancellor of the Exchequer in the House of Commons...
...Johnston, 49, handed his gavel over to the Chamber's incoming new president, William Kenneth Jackson, 59, there was speculation on whether the Chamber wasn't also turning back to its old hidebound ways. In his four years as its head, Johnston had given the Chamber a patina of liberalism it had never had before. As its spokesman, he had probably made the most eloquent and effective exposition of the new social consciousness of many businessmen...