Word: quit
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Diehl has never overseen a game he did not complete in over 20 years reffing. "You'd better not quit during a game," Hannon says, as backup officials are only provided for tournaments. Diehl obviously takes the injunction seriously. He once broke his ankle after stepping on a loose ball but went the route anyway...
...influential Financial Mail minced no words about what his course should be. The only way to stop the dangerous chain of events that threatened to drag South Africa into war, the magazine editorialized, was for Vorster to "put a gun to Smith's head: settle or quit...
Bunch of Cowboys. In 1936 Abravanel sailed for New York and, armed with letters of introduction from Conductors Bruno Walter and Wilhelm Furtwangler, got a job conducting at the Metropolitan Opera. He made his debut conducting Delibes' Lakme, starring Lily Pons. Two years later he quit to become Weill's music director on Broadway, conducting such classics as Knickerbocker Holiday, Lady in the Dark and One Touch of Venus...
...that typical. On his 60th birthday, Abravanel announced to his orchestra that he was giving them the right to fire him at any time, by vote on a secret ballot. "I have seen too many of my colleagues in the arts who do not know when to quit. It is really a sad thing to witness, and I am determined that this will not be my fate." That is not to say that Maurice Abravanel would like to be voted out. "Our reward for this hard traveling is the reaction of a small-town audience when it hears a symphony...
Died. H. Allen Smith, 68, pungent humorist-author of 36 books, many of them bestsellers; of undetermined causes; in San Francisco. A onetime altar boy and chicken picker, Smith quit school after the eighth grade and began newspapering. In 1941 he was feature writing for the New York World Telegram when he published bestselling Low Man on a Totem Pole, enabling him to quit his job and concentrate on humor. Always the newsman, Smith saw himself as a reporter who was funny only because "the world is funny...