Word: philadelphia
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From Europe and the U.S. the offers were pouring in: Dowager Queen Elisabeth of Belgium personally invited him to play at the Brussels World's Fair (he may do so, with the Philadelphia Orchestra); Impresario Sol Hurok, who once passed him up, tried unsuccessfully to get Cliburn under option; Ed Sullivan put in his bid for Cliburn's first Stateside TV appearance. Columbia Artists announced plans to bring over Moscow Conductor Kiril Kondrashin to accompany Cliburn on May 19 in a Carnegie Hall duplication of his prizewinning concert, with later performances in Philadelphia and Washington. Cliburn...
...fourth time in five months, the Federal Reserve last week eased the U.S. credit supply. To Reserve districts in New York, Chicago, Philadelphia, St. Louis and Minneapolis, Chairman William McChesney Martin and his governors gave permission to drop the rediscount another ½% (to 1¾%) on loans to member banks, and sliced bank reserve requirements. Thus the FRB released a potential of $2.7 billion in new credit into the nation's money stream...
Injuries to three front-line performers and a Pennsylvania zone defense were insufficient to stop the varsity lacrosse teams last Saturday at Philadelphia, as the Crimson downed the Quakers 6 to 4. The win evened Harvard's Ivy League record at one win and one defeat...
...runners who competed in the Penn relays at Philadelphia yesterday, only captain Pete Reider, with a fourth in the college two-mile, and the mile relay team, third in the Heptagonal mile relay, could place...