Word: spectaculars
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Some 40,000 roadbuilders gathered in Chicago last week for a look at the spectacular new machines they will need for the 13-year, $100 billion federal-state highway program. They will need plenty-an estimated $1,350,000,000 worth of new equipment by 1960, 45% more than they have...
...world of music had found a slave ? one who would, if he could, become its master. Jennie Bernstein's little buster started slowly, but at 20 he came busting out of Boston's unfashionable suburbs with alarming drive and talent. The tone for his spectacular career was set with the now legendary incident, 13 years ago, when, as a virtually unknown, 25-year-old assistant conductor of the New York Philharmonic-Symphony Orchestra, he triumphantly substituted for ailing Bruno Walter ? without rehearsal. "Like a shoe string catch in center field," explained the New York Daily News. "Make...
...Watching Lennie do some parts of Scheherezade." says Composer Walter Piston, "is like watching a woman knit." Is it the moment for a powerful initial attack? Lennie will deliver a stroke that is worthy of a medieval headsman (in St. Louis once, he delivered an introductory downbeat so overwhelmingly spectacular that every man in the orchestra sat jaw-dropped in wonder, unable to make a sound). And best of all, as Reporter Paul Moor observed, "in the final rapturous climax of the Tchaikovsky Romeo and Juliet, he will scowl and thrash the orchestra up to the peroration, and then?while...
Around the World in 80 Days. Producer Mike Todd, with the help of Jules Verne, 46 stars and $6,000,000, has created the most spectacular travelogue ever seen on the screen (TIME...
...minutes in the I.A.B. Saturday night the Crimson varsity five held the nation's top scoring team on even terms. Harvard's defense then fell apart, and the game turned into a scoring dual between Columbia's two spectacular pintsized guards, Ted Dwyer and Chet Forte...