Word: performed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fifth annual Symphony Hall concert on March 30 will open the spring vacation tour, according to Kenneth Lang '58, band manager. This year, for the first time, the band will perform for a Red Sox opening game, against the Yankees on April 18, at the invitation of Thomas Yawkey, president of the Red Sox and a former Yale baseball player...
Robert M. Hutchins, controversial president of the Fund for the Republic, took perhaps the most radical stand of the evening when he called for a reevaluation of our educational system in terms of the question, Does the system under consideration successfully perform the function of criticism, "which is the sole justification of education...
Worthy, who has just returned to this country after 41 days in Communist China, has shown that American newspapermen in that country can perform a valuable service to the United States. Dulles, says Worthy, should recognize this and reverse his decree that newspaper correspondents must not travel to China...
...fact was that Saudi Arabia's King Saud acted every inch the fabled and inscrutable potentate. His retinue-some 70 advisers and princes, ballasted by 300 pieces of luggage-was a brilliant pageant of flowing robes and fancy headdresses. There seemed to be a retainer on hand to perform every minute function: the royal chief steward came along to oversee the seasoning of the King's food; a compass-bearer kept track of the direction of Mecca for the five daily prayer rituals of the King; there was a royal barber, a coffee-brewer, a keeper...
...television. The advertisements and a cover story in Life magazine loudly proclaimed that sponsor RCA and producer Anatole Litvak had spent half a million dollars to restage Litvak's screen success of twenty years ago, and that Audrey Hepburn and her husband, Mel Ferrer, had been hired to perform in it. After it was all over, however, the ad men would have had a difficult time convincing anybody that Mayerling was anything but a monumental bore...