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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Piston's symphony was chosen after the Boston Symphony decided not to perform it this year because of scheduling difficulties. This will be the first of Piston's works ever performed by the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Orchestra Will Play Symphony by Piston | 4/17/1951 | See Source »

...terms for such a concordance: "That is up to the Holy See." The Archbishop listed as fundamental for the church the right to give religious instruction to Roman Catholic children, perform marriage ceremonies, maintain a free Catholic press, engage in Catholic social and welfare activities...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: YUGOSLAVIA: Where There Is Good Will . . . | 4/16/1951 | See Source »

...bird cages twisted out of shape, elaborate cookie-cutters, armatures for conventional statues, and illegible cut-metal messages. His 24 Greek Ys look somewhat like stick-figures. They are reminiscent of the ages when letters were pictorial symbols and not just parts of words. Smith's 24 Ys perform a sprightly dance on the arms of a steel-candelabrum, spell out Smith's conviction that sculpture need mean nothing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: With the Help of Gas | 4/16/1951 | See Source »

Dave Shapiro plays the Assistant Tormentor, Wilfred, with some fine, in-character mugging. A young lady with a lovely voice, Mary Warren Bartlett, is charming as the heroine, Elsie. Others who perform lustily and well are Timothy Wise, J. Vernon Patrick, Yolanda Lyon, and Jean Campbell. The setting by George Hersey is excellent, considering the fantastic limitations of his stage. Musical Director Norman R. Shapiro, and the entire troupe have turned out a production that does well by Gilbert and Sullivan...

Author: By Stephen O. Saxe, | Title: The Yeomen of the Guard | 4/13/1951 | See Source »

Inside the world's biggest bomber, the camera pokes into the small, pressurized compartments, jammed with equipment, where the crewmen eat hot meals, perform, their demanding jobs, doze off-duty in tiered bunks. To get from one end of the big bomber to the other, the airmen crawl the distance of half a city block, or slide on a dolly through a tunnel in the innards of the plane...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Apr. 9, 1951 | 4/9/1951 | See Source »

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