Word: performer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...remnants of a mediocre season, a mediocre varsity golf team winds up its schedule with a burst of action in the next four days. Winning six and tying one of their eleven matches, the golfers can complete their season with some glory if they upset Yale today or perform in the New England Intercollegiate Championships this weekend. Fulfilling both assignments is only a remote possibility...
...word got around among U.S. orchestras: if you want to perform a modern violin score, get Spivakovsky. Temperamentally, that was fine for the fiddler, but to programmers and booking agents too much modern music is not good business. Tossy Spivakovsky learned that there was such a thing as an unbalanced portfolio, successfully set out to rid himself of the modernist...
...raging flame of life." From 1934 to Whitehead's death in 1947 at the age of 86, Price went back again and again, afterward recording each conversation. Once, Whitehead saw him to the door and offered this nightcap: "I always feel that I have two duties to perform with a parting guest: one, to see that he doesn't forget anything that is his; the other, to see that he doesn't take anything that is mine." But Price took away a record of one of the most probing minds of the century in spontaneous action, kicking...
This June Briggs Cunningham, sports-car builder and racing driver by postwar compulsion, will be out to show that his U.S.-built cars can perform with the best in the world's No. 1 road race: France's famed 24-hour Grand Prix of Endurance at Le Mans. To hundreds of thousands of U S. speed fans, he is the symbol of all their own sporty urges, the man who makes fast cars and races them with the best at home and abroad...
Those who have ever seen a street sweeper's truck clanking around Cambridge at five in the morning know how archaic the machines are. If anyone could stay critical at that hour, there would probably be an outcry from a public used to watching their high powered servants perform at supersonic speeds. But the new speed fad hardly bothers the sweepers. They still prefer picking up the newspaper shreds of a high-charged world at the laconic pace of six miles an hour...