Word: pedalings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...could perhaps ask for a little more articulation and more sparing use of the damper pedal in the Scarlatti, but both sonatas--seldom played items--were performed with grace and elegance, and showed to advantage the many tonal colors at the pianist's disposal...
...allowances for himself and his family, aged El Amin played his part to perfection. He was regal and dignified at hand-kissing ceremonies, built fancy palaces and went roaring through town in a royal limousine with a screaming siren (reports have it that El Amin Bey had a foot pedal in the back of his car with which he himself could sound the siren). Most important, El Amin kept himself out of political mischief by spending his days tinkering with old clocks and watches and later, when his hobbies turned more modern, with an expensive X-ray machine...
...barge of floating park benches. There are big brassrails curving over bow and stern used to pull a landing boat to the dock and a jaunty litle American flag out in front. When I approached this peculiar fleet, one of the waiting skippers stood nearby examining the foot-pedal, apparatus...
...ride to the railroad station. Bianchi's new "World Champion" has ten gears operated by a hand shift, weighs only 23 lbs. (v. an average 47 lbs. for standard U.S. bikes) and has hit 60 m.p.h. ridden by Italian bike-racing Champion Fausto Coppi. Ordinary pedal pushers, says Bianchi, can do 50 m.p.h. without trouble. Price in Italy: $75. Price in U.S.: about...
Foot on the Pedal. Working seven days a week, against local skepticism so profound that for a long while grocers refused credit to his own family, Frank Rackley slowly amassed community support that helped swing a $1,000,000 Reconstruction Finance Corp. loan in 1950. With the loan for working capital, Rackley was in business. He became one of the youngest steel presidents in the industry. With heavy Korean-war orders to help, Jessop Steel netted $400,000 in 1951, $1,800,000 in 1952. Though earnings fell to $25,000 in 1954, Jessop came back handily through the rest...