Word: robert
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...LANDRUM-GRIFFIN BILL, jointly sponsored by Michigan Republican Robert P. Griffin and Georgia Democrat Phillip M. Landrum. More restrictive than the other bills, it imposed severe limitations on picketing and secondary boycotts, ordered labor leaders to respect rank-and-file rights under pain of jail sentences, extended state-court jurisdiction in labor disputes. The bill was backed by House Republicans and Southern conservatives, and got the nod of President Eisenhower...
Working Man. The $100,000 Club Cabazon failed to attract the expected bonanza of customers from Palm Springs, and its franchise passed from hand to hand like the Hope diamond, bringing bad luck to everyone who held it. But under the direction of Tallent-appointed Police Chief Robert ("Doc") Morton, an ex-chiropractor, Cabazon quickly won and richly deserved a reputation as the worst speed trap in Southern California. Last year traffic tickets brought in $27,985, while all business license fees returned only $5,817. Explains Morton, who has since broken bitterly with Tallent: "It was all Tallent...
What started him singing again was Los Angeles' Roger Wagner Chorale, the West Coast equivalent of Manhattan's Robert Shaw Chorale. For fun, Oliver began singing with the group. One day Dr. Hugo Strelitzer, a well-known voice coach, heard him and made it his business to train that powerful voice...
With his firm jaw and conservative business suits, Robert Oliver, 36, is the picture of a successful executive. And so he is: boss of management development at California's missile-making Hughes-Aircraft Co. But when he talks, his voice is that of someone else: an oldtime Wagnerian "black bass," echoing with rare depth and timbre. Executive Oliver's voice is so unusual, in fact, that when Composer Igor Stravinsky first heard him, he added a specially low voice role to his last great work and asked Oliver to sing...
...Lamentationes ]eremiae Prophetae (i.e., Threnody, Lamentations of the Prophet Jeremiah) is a complex, 33-minute work for six vocal soloists, chorus and full orchestra, and the bass part, ranging from middle B-flat to low E-flat, is the most difficult of all. At Venice, says Conductor Robert Craft, who rehearsed Threni's chorus, the starring role should have been the tenor, "but there was no question that Oliver ran away with all the honors." Last week music lovers could hear for themselves what all the excitement is about. On sale was a Columbia recording of Threni that...