Word: saint
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Saint-Saens: Introduction and Rondo Cappricioso, Op. 28, (A); Bach: 'Cello Suite #3 (L); Haydn: Symphony #104 (London) (W); Prokoviev: Quartet #2 in F. Op. 92 (A); Handel: Royal Fireworks Music (L); Beethoven: Sonata #8 for piano, Op. 13 13 (Pathetique...
...Boildieu: Overture to Caliph of Baghdad (D);-Berg, Quartet Opus #3 (C); Bach: Saint John Passion, (Vx) Schubert: Quartet...
...Dress Doctor is crammed with this sort of peep-show item. Some readers may be fascinated to learn that Eva Marie Saint has "a perfectly good figure," that Mitzi Gaynor, in the right kind of "red-spangled straight jacket," exhibits a "rounded female figure, good bosom, tiny waist," or that Hedy Lamarr, though "she's slim, actually," does not allow herself to be padded out. As for Anna Magnani, "When she undressed, we were amazed. Under the black slacks and sweater was the most exquisite of black French foundations." Sophia Loren refuses to wear blue jeans, and Designer Head...
PRIX GONCOURT. Hardly anyone had heard of the winning book, Saint-Germain, ou la Negotiation, before the award was announced, but the prize assures a sale of 100,000 copies. Written by Francis Walder, a retired Belgian artillery officer turned minor diplomat, Saint-Germain is a diplomat's reconstruction of the negotiations that led up to the peace of Saint-Germain, the temporary truce between French Huguenots and French Catholics before the St. Bartholomew Massacre of 1572. "One can understand his wanting to write the book," sniffed one critic who struggled through it, "but what one cannot understand...
...decree reopened all the big-time rooms-at the Hotels Hilton. Nacional. Riviera, Capri, Comodoro and Saint John's, and at the Tropicana, Sans Souci and Montmartre nightclubs. At first the government talked of barring Cubans from play unless they could prove sufficient wealth by testimonial from the internal revenue bureau, but in the end even that requirement was dropped. Senorita Nunez kept padlocks on five casinos that drew a mostly Cuban crowd. She also banned slot machines-at least...