Word: performances
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that we're a symphony orchestra and not a band," explains the orchestra's advance man, Sergeant Regis Cronauer. "At one post they wanted us to play in an abandoned hangar that had become a bird sanctuary." The men of the Seventh Army Symphony are required to perform no Army duties "except to wear the uniform properly," and except for their own tubas, trumpets and trombones they hear few commanding tones from the brass. In return, the experiment has more than paid off in prestige and honor for the U.S. occupation forces. "We're expected to produce...
...modern baseball fan has good reason to change the words of the old song to "I don't know if I'll ever get back." In growing bigger, big-league baseball has also grown painfully slower as pitchers outwait batters, batters outwait pitchers, managers perform for TV, and umpires examine the ball, the plate and the terrain for dangerous specks of dust...
...learning." In the process of changing schools, although he has merely switched to another branch of the same university, Ronnie has lost a year's eligibility as a football player, but Harvey Knox is willing to pay the penalty in return for a chance to see Ronnie perform for two years under U.C.L.A. Coach "Red" Sanders. "I like him," said Harvey simply...
...more. Churchill could-if he would-shift the British direction. Eden, when Churchill retires, will find such a shift far more difficult to make. Washington is impatient for the aging Churchill to quit the scene, but before he does, he has one more historic task that he can perform better than any other living man: the restoration of an effective U.S.-British alliance...
...Pudding had its own troubles, but none so serious as those of the H.D.C. The organization first planned to perform one of its old shows, but existing facilities were found to be inadequate, so George Weller agreed to write a new book. The theatrical group, however, was already beginning to be plagued with union expenses. The Pudding was charged $110 after privately transporting its scenery to New York. Union labor halted the Pudding truck outside its destination, the Mecca Temple, and presented the bill for carrying the sets inside, a distance of four feet...