Word: scalese
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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The Gay Nineties (Helen Traubel; Victor LP). Wagnerian Soprano Traubel has a big reputation, a big voice. She scales the voice down pretty far for the old pulse-bumpers like A Bird in a Gilded Cage, My Mother Was a Lady, Waiting for the Robert E. Lee. The job could...
To prevent the disappearance of what he terms "an interesting carnivore," Smits has taken the lead in urging the creation of a timber wolf sanctuary on Isle Royale, a rugged, heavily wooded tract in Lake Superior, 48 miles from the northernmost Michigan mainland. Last week, in an attempt to put...
Danger of a Gallop. But this year Australia ran into economic trouble. Overseas trade, which in 1950-51 brought her a foreign credit balance of $533 million, in 1951-52 produced a deficit of $846 million. Receipts for wool, her chief export, were down 50%. As a result, imports were...
Ballard had the uncut stone weighed. It tipped the scales at 41 points, just short of half a carat. Dealers appraised the stone at $10, so Ballard swapped it even for a one-year renewal subscription to TIME'S Latin American edition (value: $12.50). Said Ballard: "It wasn'...
Phil Murray was born in 1886 in Scotland, of Irish Catholic parents. His father was the president of the local coal miners' union, and Phil went through his first strike when he was six. Four years later, he quit school and went into the mines to work at 80...