Word: sidney
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...American, and the crowd's favorite from the beginning, was Cleveland-born Sidney Harth, 32, concertmaster and assistant conductor of the Louisville Orchestra. His Soviet competitor was a talented Russian girl, Rosa Fain, 28, pupil of Russian Violinist David Oistrakh, one of the judges. Only 13 violinists lasted to the finals. The required work: a Polish violin concerto. Both Violinists Harth and Fain selected Wieniawski's Second Concerto...
...Gwilym Price remained chairman. Every industry looked for new competitive talent. To exploit new markets at home, John L. Burns, 49, took over at Radio Corp. of America as Frank Fosom neared retirement; with more exploration abroad, William Whiteford stepped up to replace Gulf Oil's retiring Boss Sidney A. Swensrud. And when General Dynamics Chairman John J. Hopkins died, the man who moved in to tie the corporation's many divisions together was Frank Pace, 45, onetime U.S. Budget Director and Secretary of the Army. Even Madison Avenue admen, whose accounts were swimming back and forth like...
COMMON SENSE AND THE FIFTH AMENDMENT, by Sidney Hook. Plentifully supported by logic and his own common sense, Philosopher Hook shows how sentimental, not too commonsensical liberals have accepted the Fifth Amendment as a shelter for the just and the unjust alike. Sidestepped by many reviewers and attacked by others, it makes more sense about the Fifth than any book in years...
GIVE US THIS DAY, by Sidney Stewart. A grim and unforgettable book about World War II by a young draftee who was captured on Bataan, liberated by the Russians in Manchuria after suffering more than three years of horror and maddening brutality...
...Nicholas Bloembergen '41, Gordon McKay Professor of Applied Physics, Dr. J. O. Artman, Research Fellow in Applied Physics, and Sidney Shapiro '53, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, discoverers of the new amplifier, first operated the device in a laboratory test last Saturday...