Word: rankings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Handel was above all a choral composer, and the extensive passages for chorus in Semele require a first-rank ensemble with clear texture and plenty of volume. The Lowell Musical Society was very fortunate to have the services of Hewitt Pantaleoni '52, an industrious, capable chorus director. The group sounded nearly perfect in unison, as well as in the tricky polyphonic sections. There was precision and grace here not always found even in professional groups...
Hsiao-Li, the wife of a former Harvard lecturer, yesterday became the first Chinese to be given the rank of Lady in the English peerage. Her husband, Michael Lindsay, automatically received the rank of Baron of Birker upon the death of his 72 year old father...
...Queen's husband, Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, will henceforth rank as "first gentleman of the Realm" whenever he is out with his wife. When Elizabeth is not present, Philip, as the most recently created royal duke, will take third place after George VI's brothers: Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester, and Prince Edward, Duke of Windsor...
Kent wants to be a good company commander, but when he is not panicky he is petty. Worse for him, capture and torture show him up as a coward. Kicked and loathsomely humiliated, Kent retches but refuses to reveal more than his name, rank and serial number. Then he is shown one of his enlisted men decapitated, and another strung up nude and bayoneted, "streamers of gut sticking to the bare legs." When the Japanese officer shouts, "You, now!" Kent blurts out everything he knows...
...Moral from Lana. Columnist Graham, fortyish, had taken on her prominent new rank by joining the staff of Daily Variety. Because a Hollywood trade paper's tremendous influence is out of all proportion to its small circulation (Variety's circulation is about 7,000), Sheilah's Hollywood power is now roughly equal to that enjoyed by a top executive producer's wife...