Word: spectaculars
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Smith himself and an enthusiastic ghost hunter named Harry Price, its infamy had spread throughout the nation. Harry Price, an affable hobbyist of independent means, was far and away Britain's best-known investigator of psychic phenomena. His books on the subject were legion and readable, and his spectacular exposures of fake spiritualists were invariably good for pages of newspaper copy...
...front seat at the guillotine." But the fierce ambition of the Skating Mothers paid off. In the midst of defeat in other events, the U.S. could still salve its pride with the lilting skill of Tenley Albright and Hayes Alan Jenkins, of Ronald Robertson and Carol Heiss, the spectacular figure skaters who swept past all opposition...
...Antonio and his Spanish Ballet Company, the Scots Guards Band, the Kabuki Dancers, the Vienna Choir Boys. Last week, hewing to his principle of giving the public the best, he presented his second TV show of the season.* It was easily the best show of the week, an NBC Spectacular called Festival of Music (Producers' Showcase, Mon. 8 p.m.), which gathered in one program 13 of the world's topflight instrumental and operatic virtuosos...
...once the show was over and the pressure was off, Hurok changed his tune. He has ideas for other shows, e.g., digging out the popular light operas of Offenbach and Cimarosa. With NBC already planning another Hurok Spectacular, Hurok is talking of doing a show once a month or every two months "to spread the gospel of good music." The size of the Festival audience had the impresario talking fortissimo e molto appassionato: "The show went over with such a bang, it created such a revolution, that it proved to everybody that the American people are not morons. They...
Historians, political scientists, and just plain politicians will probably be pondering the rise of Senator Joseph McCarthy to prominence and power for a good many years to come. Even more spectacular, in a way, has been the Wisconsin senator's rapid descent into almost as much political obscurity as a United States senator can ever hope to attain. Harry Truman and Richard Nixon are not exactly noted for their harmony on most issues, but both have labeled McCarthy a political has-been in recent months and agree that his power has virtually evaporated. A.D.A. national chairman Joseph Rauh, Jr. tuned...