Word: smartly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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From the money usually spent on soloists, the Philharmonic's smart Conductor Robert Whitney, urged on by Mayor Charles P. Farnsley, commissioned six new ten-minute works for $500 each by Virgil Thomson, Darius Milhaud, Roy Harris, Italy's Gian Francesco Malipiero, Spain's blind Joaquin Rodrigo, Louisville's own Claude Almand. Four of the composers were promised another $500 apiece for conducting their own world premieres...
When reporters asked her to identify the brown fur coat she wore over an ankle-length, brown Chinese gown she spelled it out: "N-u-t-r-i-a." Then, with a glance at Mrs. Marshall's smart mink, she said, "It's an old fur coat, and it's out of style, but it's warm." When the two ladies were seated to be photographed, she smiled at Mrs. Marshall and asked, "Are we supposed to look at each other lovingly...
...Smart Director Laszlo Halasz has little money to work with. On his last night in Manhattan's City Center, he put on Richard Strauss's Salome as a dress rehearsal for his Chicago opening. He wasn't worried. Said Director Halasz: "My kids are like soldiers. They wait for their cue, and then when it is time they sing. They know if they don't sing there will be trouble tomorrow...
...Hilary Smart, ocC, the only Harvard man to win a gold medal at the Olympic games, described his experiences in European regattas last summer...
...Smart and his father, Paul H. Smart '14, won the Internationalship Star Racing Championship...