Word: philadelphia
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Last week, meeting in Philadelphia, the A.M.A. gave Dr. Clark a gold medal and named him "General Practitioner of the Year...
...Everybody's another Flagstad when I'm being told about her," grumbled the Philadelphia Orchestra's Eugene Ormandy. But after listening to recordings, he hired Norwegian Soprano Aase Nordmo-Lövberg, sight unseen. Last week Soprano Lövberg, 34, a statuesque blonde, appeared in Philadelphia's Academy of Music for her American debut. Despite a deep chest cold, she sang a challenging program of arias from Beethoven's Fidelio and Wagnerian selections. Soprano Lövberg proved to be a sort of Flagstad in miniature, more lyric than dramatic, with a round, pure...
...record companies have put out a huge repertory, covering the range of chamber music from its charming origins in Renaissance Italy and England to Schoenberg's atonal lung-and-mind exercise, the Quintet for Wind Instruments, Op. 26 (Philadelphia Woodwind Quintet; Columbia) and beyond. Eight of Boccherini's Quintets, sparkling with gaiety and glowing with warm Italian exuberance, have been polished up and lovingly presented on four LPs with two more to come (Quintette Boccherini; Angel). All of Haydn's 80-odd Quartets were planned for recording, and 47 were put on vinyl by the Haydn Society...
...went all through the game at Philadelphia's Municipal Stadium. The ornery Middies even upset the odds makers. They were picked by the bettors to win by six points. But they swamped the Army 14-0, and they did the job so thoroughly that the final score was an understatement...
...caught passes, pitched laterals and ran like an Army tank all through the rest of the game. When Army did threaten, it was Oldham's interceptions, as much as anything, that threw them back. And in the final quarter he caught an Army punt, navigated 44 yards of Philadelphia mud to score once more. Once more he kicked the extra point...