Word: stad
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Northwest Territories near the Beaufort Sea, where Subscriber J. C. Callaghan claims that not even good radio contact can be guaranteed. Other copies are flown to subscribers like George Pinsky at Fort Resolution on Great Slave Lake in the District of Mackenzie, across the lake to Gordon D. Scram-stad in Yellowknife, and farther north to D. E. Webster in Good Hope...
...Other groups with the same idea: England's Dolmetsch family, and Henri Casadesus' Societe des Instruments Anciens in Paris, with which Stad studied...
...Society of the Ancient Instruments, whose recordings have long been treasured by chamber-music addicts, is a nonprofit labor of love. It is the creation of a little grey-maned, Dutch-born music teacher named Ben Stad. Conductor Stad, 59, came to the U.S. in 1908, eventually founded Philadelphia's Institute of Musical Art. Some 20 years ago, it occurred to him that modern instruments like the piano and violin were not suited to the music written for harpsichord and viole d'amour during the 17th and 18th Centuries. This idea was the beginning of Ben Stad...
Over the years, Ben Stad's musical prejudices have hardened. When it was once suggested that son Maurice might study the saxophone, Ben said firmly: "I don't want to hear one note of it." Son Maurice grew up to be a cellist. Last week's performers included Mrs. Stad, Daughter Julea Stad Chapline and Son Maurice Ben Stad (in Navy uniform...
General Winkelman carefully specified that the war was not over in Zeeland and Queen Wilhelmina named Admiral van der Stad to command all her forces there. The Dutch Navy-was still in the war, being mostly stationed in The Netherlands In dies. The non-surrender of Zeeland, land of shrimp-fishermen and antique churches, was important to Great B/itain since its deep channels are the only ones on the shallow, white-sand Dutch coast suitable for submarine bases. But by week's end this resistance, momentarily bolstered by Prince Bernhard's return, petered out as the Allies withdrew...