Word: performances
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Sinclair Weeks, treasurer of the Republican National Committee and one of the party's leading lights in Massachusetts, took sides ringingly: "I ... urge ... my good friend, Bob Taft, to perform a supreme act of self-denial which will electrify the nation, instantly unite the party and guarantee victory, by coming out for Eisenhower...
...Thanks to a fermentation process in which mold-microbes (captured on a windowsill in Kalamazoo) perform a dozen complicated chemical processes, the Upjohn Co. has boosted production of cortisone and cut its price by 20%. Neck & neck in the same race, Schering Corp. can now get enough cortisone to treat a patient for three weeks from the bile of only two cattle (it used to take...
...Hope Marathon (Sat. 11 a.m., NBC). Hollywood stars perform for the benefit of the U.S. Olympic Team...
...Concours custom, each of the twelve finalists was expected to perform with the Belgian National Orchestra 1) a new composition none had ever played before, and 2) a well-practiced concerto of his own choice. This year's new composition, a fiercely atonal concerto by Belgian Composer Raymond Chevreuille, had the contestants in an uproar. Complained one: "Bartok and Prokofiev are duck soup compared to it." Said another, singling out two men who happened to be among the 13 contest judges: "Even Rubinstein and Casadesus couldn't play it." Concours officials agreed to lop off the third movement...
Leonard Bernstein, professor of music at Brandeis, is director of the festival which will also perform a premiere of his open, "Trouble in Tahiti...