Word: soth
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...idle and somewhat sportive mood," the Des Moines Register's Chief Editorial Writer Lauren Soth wrote a few paragraphs last February inviting a Soviet farm delegation "to get the lowdown" on Iowa's prime products, corn and hogs. Moscow jumped at the offer, and Kansan Dwight Eisenhower soon endorsed the idea of exchanging farm visits...
...soth reunion last week, Yale '05 proved that its old-fashioned classical education has a way of staying put. "Post quinquaginta annos amicitiae mutuae" it wired its counterparts at Harvard, "alumni Universitatis Yalensis hie in Novo Portu congregati classi simili Harvardensi salu-tem plurimam dicimus." As any Harvard-man would know, this was another way of saying: "After 50 years of mutual friendship, we alumni of Yale University assembled here in New Haven express affectionate greetings to the corresponding class of Harvard...
...Hebrew Union College celebrated its Soth anniversary with "Thanks to Denmark" ceremonies, recalling one of the bravest mass rescues of World War II. In 1943, when Hitler sent his Gestapo to arrest all Jews in occupied Denmark, the Danes hid the Jewish population in attics, barns and cellars. Danish policemen and fishermen slipped the Jews into waiting fishing smacks that ferried them to the safety of neutral Sweden. Many of the Danish rescuers were caught by the Nazis. but of Denmark's 8,500 Jews, 7,000 were saved. Said Dr. Nelson Glueck, president of Hebrew Union: "We Jews...
...beautiful wife, Francoise Gillot, left him. She took along their two children, aged 6 and 4, explained that she was "sick of living with a monument." The "monument" bestirred itself, and by February produced a series of 180 drawings that may well stand among the richest flowerings in soth century art. The drawings were first put together as a book in Paris. Last week they were available on U.S. book counters as Picasso and the Human Comedy (Harcourt, Brace...
...Call. Catelinet, who started out as a child in the brass section of a Salvation Army band, now plays tuba for both London's Philharmonia Orchestra and the London Symphony. Six weeks ago, he got an important call. The London Symphony, preparing for its soth jubilee concert, had asked Ralph Vaughan Williams, Britain's No. 1 composer, to write a special composition for the celebration. Vaughan Williams just happened to have a tuba concerto * lying around, agreed to have it played if the orchestra had a tubaman up to the job. Would Catelinet like to audition for Vaughan...