Word: performance
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...plus an "unofficial" bonus of $2,500 for the playoff. Such is the excitement generated by big-money pro tournaments that publicity-minded business firms are getting into the act. Next September, at Akron's Firestone Country Club, Nicklaus, Palmer and two other golfers will perform in front of TV cameras in the most exclusive four-man tournament ever staged; the winner will get $50,000, second place will be worth $15,000, third and fourth $5,000 apiece. The sponsors: a radio-TV firm and a manufacturer of refrigerators...
...copy for the latest assembly kit-a ic-in. Frankenstein's monster at 98^. "Get Him Now Before He Gets You." The makers of the Frankenstein monster (and other movie monsters to come) include a pious aside to parents: "In the opinion of reputable authorities, [these models] actually perform a valuable service for the child." When "certain fantasies" center about such a model, instead of being "improperly focused," they are released "in the manner of steam escaping through the safety valve on a radiator...
Isaac D. Hurwitz '53, assistant concertmaster of the Hartford Symphony, and pianist Raymond Rendall, associate professor of music at Wesleyan, will perform in the Adams House lower common room at 8:30 p.m. Sunday. On the admission-free program will be sonatas by Mozart, Brahms and Charles Ives...
...that the diggers found are mostly of small girls and boys, apparently used to embellish the temple. Who the boys may have been in real life remains a mystery. But about the girls more is known. They bore the title "Little Bears," for one of their duties was to perform a ritual dance dressed as bears to ward off a plague that according to legend was threatened by Artemis after her holy bear was killed by some Athenian children...
...text was familiar: that notable Irish Baritone John F. Kennedy had delivered it in its entirety in Washington on Jan. 20, 1961. Set to music by Composer Russell Danburg, 55, and given its premiere at the University of Florida last week, the Kennedy inaugural address took 55 minutes to perform (Jack Kennedy himself took 14), called for a 70-piece orchestra and more than 300 choristers. Critics agreed that though Kennedy had been eminently satisfactory in his solo effort, the choral reprise made rewarding song...