Word: somes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Cornered by an aggressive newsman in the lobby of London's Ritz Hotel, Oilman Jean Paul Getty (TIME cover, Feb. 24, 1958) was persuaded to offer some reasons why the life of a billionaire is not roses all the way. "Quite a bother," to Getty, 66, and an altar...
Composer Morton (Fall River Legend) Gould at an ASCAP dinner in the visitors' honor. At week's end, Shostakovich and his countrymen rolled into Manhattan's cavernous Basin Street East to catch some summit-level jazz presided over by Old Maestros Benny Goodman on clarinet and Red...
Former Democratic Vice President John Nance Garner, who once hoped aloud that he would live to be 92 (so that he could claim as many years as a private citizen as in public life), turned 91. But that was too close to 92, so he has now raised his goal...
Avco's apparatus, called a magneto-hydrodynamic (MHD) electric generator, works on the principle that any conductor of electricity that is moved through a magnetic field will generate in itself a current of electricity. This applies not only to copper wires (as in conventional generators), but to gases, which...
Despite its eminence, one complaint might be made against the Vienna Philharmonic: it plays too little modern music, rarely even gets around to the works of such eminent Viennese as Arnold Schoenberg and Anton Webern. But the men of the Vienna Philharmonic know what they like. Says Concertmaster Willy Boskovsky...