Word: specializer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...mounted on gold-shod Arabian steeds, Franco rode to the Cortes. No less resplendent than his escorts, whose azure, red & orange capes flowed in the wind, the Caudillo wore the yellow, red & gold dress uniform of a Field Marshal of Spain. Briskly he entered the Cortes chamber through a special door which had been ripped open for him the night before, was bricked up again after the ceremony. Bobbing up & down, Franco acknowledged the cheers of the white-jacketed Procuradores (Cortes members) and the blue-uniformed Falangists. On hand to hear the Caudillo was a fine array of foreign diplomats...
...town of Celldb'molk, the Reds organized a huge picnic rally. One morning 55 flower-decked trains brought 150,000 peasants. Special Organization Guards (in blue shirts and red ties) led them into the park, kept the applause going 15 minutes after Boss Rakosi himself arrived. A peasant woman kissed him on the cheek, presented him with a white lamb. Said she: "Anybody who is not going to vote for the People's Front has no more brains than this little lamb...
...injury five months ago. According to present plans, he will run in Chicago this summer. Shuddering to think of how much poundage handicappers would pile on him, Ben Jones is looking ahead to such weight-for-age fall classics as Belmont's Jockey Club Gold Cup and the Pimlico Special...
Other conductors who won special laurels : Fritz Reiner, for conducting the Met's broadcast (over ABC) of Salome (TIME, Feb. 14); 30-year-old Leonard Bernstein, "best guest conductor"; and the Boston Pops' Arthur Fiedler, "best program conductor." Favorites in other musical fields: Contralto Marian Anderson, Tenor Ferruccio Tagliavini, Pianist Robert Casadesus, Violinist Jascha Heifetz, Organist E. Power Biggs...
...behemoths were not fighting over peanuts. Last week, the first week of big city sales, some 4,000 cameras were sold in the Manhattan area alone. Though Polaroid was making 10,000 cameras a month, it was forced to ration them, as well as its special film, to retail outlets. For the first time since the war, Polaroid expected to make a profit this year...