Word: philadelphia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...indoor track season hit its stride, but Laszlo Tabori, the fast Hungarian refugee, lagged far off the pace. Trying the indoor mile for the first time at the Philadelphia Inquirer meet, he ran a slow 4:10.8, finished third behind Boston's George King (4:10.1) and Chicago's Phil Coleman (4:10.7). Next night in Washington, B.C., Tabori switched to the two-mile run, dropped out on the twelfth lap with stomach cramps. The winner: Polish Refugee John Macy (9:02.6), now a student at the University of Houston. Olympic Hurdles Champion Lee Calhoun came back from...
After Harvard, Lennie vainly tried to find a musical job, even hung out his shingle as a piano teacher ("No pupils," he recalls). But Fritz Reiner, then at Philadelphia's famed Curtis Institute of Music, was impressed by a dazzling Bernstein audition, took him on as a student in conducting. But it was in the late Serge Koussevitzky. the Boston Symphony Orchestra's matchless showman, that Bernstein found his musical father. Koussevitzky invited him to join the conducting class at Tanglewood's summer music school. The old man called him Lenyush ka, and told friends...
...place, the modern, competitive banker is often as friendly as a used-car dealerneering services for "the little man," they now compete for every consumer's dollar, are putting up new branches everywhere to catch the smallest as well as the biggest account. Philadelphia National Bank, long known as a rich man's institution, today has 21 branches, 150,000 accounts, and its assets have grown by more than $900 million. Bankers are also learning the values of advertising to get their message across, spent $82 million last year v. $22 million in 1946. New York's Chase Manhattan Bank...
...bank salesmanship is also transforming the industry's old-fashioned marble mausoleums into modern buildings of shimmering glass, bright aluminum and soft background music, creating an inviting atmosphere that increases business. To call attention to itself, the Philadelphia Savings Fund Society has even gone so far as to deck out its tellers and passbooks in gaudy Duncan plaid. Result: there were 2,200 new accounts in the first few months...
...state senator and Republican National Committeeman, who in 1943 took over his mentor's Pennsylvania Manufacturers' Association (which for years ran two insurance companies, a dozen state senators and some 50 representatives, held the balance of political power in the state); of a pulmonary embolism; in Philadelphia...