Word: performances
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...would sing at a Manhattan morning musicale. "Sing!" snapped Melba. "I can't even spit at 11 a.m." But sing she did, and a whopping fee she got. That was nearly 50 years ago. After Melba, other great and near-great musicians jostled one another to perform for the dowagers at Albert Morris Bagby's Musical Mornings. Last January, in the Grand Ballroom of the Waldorf-Astoria, the 50th year of "the Bagbys," the 429th concert reached its end. For the first time dapper, ruddy, wax-mustached little Mr. Bagby, 81, was not present: he had the grippe...
Appointees will perform professional engineering work including assisting in experimental research, design or testing of machinery, and testing and inspection of engineering materials. Separate employment lists will be established in each recognized branch of engineering...
...Joseph C. Solomon of Baltimore is a great hand with small dolls, toy furniture, vehicles, etc., which he uses to set up family situations. If the patient is a little girl, the therapist provides her with a doll with which she unconsciously identifies herself. She makes the doll perform actions which she would not admit any notion of doing herself. One little girl made a toy streetcar run over the sister and mother images -to the doctor, a dead giveaway. Drs. Frank Ford Tallman and Leon Nathaniel Goldensohn find a "Betsy Wetsy" doll (one which can be given water...
Eleanor Roosevelt likes to ask young musicians to perform at the White House, and young musicians naturally like to be asked. Last week Mrs. Roosevelt put on "An Evening of Songs for American Soldiers." Six of the black and white performers were from a radio program: CBS's thrice-a-week Back Where I Come From, a sustainer devoted to U. S. folk songs. Among the White House guests: the Secretaries of War, Navy, Treasury & wives, the Chief of Staff of the Army, the Commandants of Marine Corps and Coast Guard, Mr. Knudsenhillman & wives, Librarian of Congress Archibald MacLeish...
...second and third lines react under fire will have a lot to do with the game's outcome. Hodder's dependable first trio of Willetts, Burgy Ayres, and George Duane, can be depended on to give a good account of itself, but the way the other two lines perform will be a question mark until the end of the game. If the Sophomores keep on showing the improvement that has been manifest in recent games, and if Gordie McGrath's legs hold up, the Crimson will not give a bad account of itself...