Word: queene
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Springfield, Mo., "queen city of the Ozarks" (pop. 96,350) has convinced millions, through radio and TV, that it is the home of country music. While other radio stations were scratching out pop music on wax, Springfield's KWTO (Keep Watching the Ozarks) gave its listeners live, howling hillbillies...
...Beauty and the Beast" is a story about a hairy Havana high school senior who doesn't fit into the group, goes to bed with a prostitute, and finds that the socially acceptable fairy queen of the high school is neither off-beat nor a prostitute. The author, Robert Grindell, is another smooth writer, but his plot lacks both unity and message. He handles sex well, but his characters are not up to the experience, shadowy sketches whom he seems only to have met, never to have known. The hero's hairiness is, like much of the characterization, inadequate...
...British were, in fact, beginning to take their two sinister visitors more lightly. At week's end the spectacle at Windsor Castle of the Soviet Premier and the First Secretary of the Communist Party gallantly presenting the Queen of England with a sable stole no longer appalled; instead it appealed to the British sense of the ludicrous. Said one old lady: "They look like two little boys blown up by bicycle pumps...
...soloists conducted by Ferenc Fricsay; Decca, 3 LPs). Despite its slightly studied style and rather tubby sound, this is the finest recording yet to appear of the 165-year-old masterpiece. Soprano Maria Stader makes Pamina a joy to the ear; Rita Streich is awesomely secure in the Queen of the Night's sky-high aerobatics, while the two leading men, Tenor Ernst Häfliger and Baritone Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, use their handsome voices with distinction...
HOTELMAN CONRAD HILTON, whose globe-girdling empire already takes in eleven foreign cities, will move into another. In a joint venture with former Queen Rambai Barni of Thailand and local businessmen, Hilton will build and operate a $4,000,000 hotel in Bangkok with all the luxury trimmings: 300 air-conditioned rooms, restaurants, shops, and a roof garden overlooking the city's canals and temples...