Word: pianos
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...people had entered the church to hear the Christmas singing. They piled coats and purses on the back pews and looked about with appreciation. A fire was snapping in the stove, a big U.S. flag was hung near the front of the church, and the piano was decorated with holiday greens...
...should the city's fall become imminent. A neighboring correspondent and his wife, who plan to stay, got a new Ford automobile the other day as a gift from an evacuating Chinese family who couldn't take the car along with them. Then they got a grand piano in the same fashion. Now they're dazedly talking about the ill wind of evacuation...
...lantern-jawed singer with baby-doll bangs and a piano player with a floppy polka-dot bow tie opened and closed their mouths like goldfish sending up bubbles from the bottom of a murky aquarium. The sound of their voices was drowned out by the thumping and puffing of six poker-faced young men behind them, who played their instruments with loud, emotionless precision. In the darkness out front several hundred listeners crowded around small tables, stood three deep at the bar, or sat in straight-backed chairs in an upholstered bull pen. On the mirror in the far corner...
...York Philharmonic (Sun. 3 p.m., CBS). Charles Munch conducts Liszt's Concerto No. 2 in A Major. Piano soloist: Robert Casadesus...
Thursday, at the traditional Christmas party, Fred M. Fialkow '51 will bring a magician, a piano-player, and a Santa Claus to Brooks House to entertain 25 Settlement House boys. Musical chairs, ice cream and cake, and a final distribution of clothes and toys by the Santa will fill the two hours between 3:30 and 5:30 p.m. Competition is running high between PBH moguls for the post of Santa Claus...