Word: robert
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...What we have to do," says Robert Anderson, "is to maintain a strong and expanding economy, to accept the position of world leadership, and in that role to contribute as significantly as we can to a strong and expanding economy in the free world. Only thus can we help the development of the underdeveloped countries of the world. And that is the great economic challenge of our time...
...presses running ten hours a day. Harry McLain, the Journal's vice president in charge of sales, complained that some of the workers were being careless with ads; he took over, promptly pied a full-page ad. Since the printers had taken their tools with them, Oregonian Editor Robert C. Notson had to use a tiny screwdriver from his key ring to punch leads between the linotype slugs on Page...
...Times. His first novel, a long (616 pages) and intimate look at the life of Senators and Presidents, is in its eighth printing. So far it has sold 285,000 hardback copies ($5.75 each), plus 2,800,000 in a Reader's Digest condensation. On Broadway, Producers Robert Fryer and Lawrence Carr plan to stage Advise and Consent next autumn. Counting the Preminger deal, Drury could gross more than $500,000 from his book. At week's end New Novelist Drury announced he would resign from the Times, to write more books and become the Reader...
Watching the performance from the audience, Tenor Robert Nagy guessed what had happened, hurried backstage and climbed into Carelli's discarded Don Curzio costume. After that, the performance went off without a hitch, despite the fact that Carelli had never sung Basilio at the Met (he had recorded it in Vienna). The audience failed to notice the switch, but Conductor Erich Leinsdorf was shaken. "You should have seen his face," said Tenor Carelli afterward. "He nearly fell off his chair...
...Orchestra of America, founded two years ago to perform nothing but American music, presented the world premiere of Robert Kurka's Concerto for Marimba. Composer Kurka, Chicago-born son of Czech parents, went to work on his 22-minute concerto in 1956 at the suggestion of Marimbist Vida Chenoweth. completed the piece a year before his death of leukemia in 1957 at 35. Last week's performance, conducted by Richard Korn, featured Marimbist Chenoweth as soloist. A small woman (5 ft. 2 in.), she seemed dwarfed by her instrument-a 6-ft. tablelike frame supporting a graduated series...