Word: sterne
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Except for a white carved swan that shields its driver (called its"skipper"), a swan boat is fairly awkward as small-craft go, resembling a barge of floating park benches. There are big brassrails curving over bow and stern used to pull a landing boat to the dock and a jaunty litle American flag out in front. When I approached this peculiar fleet, one of the waiting skippers stood nearby examining the foot-pedal, apparatus...
Neither Russian saber-rattling nor nervous visions of the onrush of Armageddon impressed the Western leaders who must deal with the stern realities of power. From Oslo Premier Einar Gerhardsen, unmoved by Soviet threats against his nation, fired off a note informing the Russians that Norway's defense was her own business. In Britain Macmillan assured the Labor Opposition that the Christmas Island test would be held. "Those who carry responsibility and perhaps even those who aspire to responsibility must make decisions," he said. "We must rely on the power of the nuclear deterrent, or we must throw...
...peanuts from Hong Kong-went through the canal and paid its dues in Swiss francs (Nasser has not yet consented to accept either French or British currencies). The ship was chartered by a Hong Kong firm doing business with Red China; nonetheless the flag that fluttered from the stern was the "Red Duster" of the British Merchant Navy...
...enough money from button sales to finance a few music scholarships. Though some Elvis fans have protested ("You'll have to put sideburns on Ludwig before I'll like him"), the movement seems to be gaining every day. Dozens of Yale professors wear Ludwig buttons. Violinist Isaac Stern bought 200, used two of them in Philadelphia to decorate Conductor Eugene Ormandy and Violinist Zino Francescatti. And last week a TIME reporter who interviewed famed Cellist Pablo Casals (see Music) wired from Puerto Rico: "[He] came out in a white sports shirt open at the throat, brown slacks...
...love for Bach finally brought him out of retirement. In 1950, on the 200th anniversary of Bach's death, Violinist Alexander Schneider, a Casals protege, persuaded El Maestro to take part in a Bach festival in Prades. From all over the world famed soloists-Joseph Szigeti. Isaac Stern. Rudolf Serkin-poured into the village on the slopes of the Pyrenees to play with the man Fritz Kreisler had called "the best who draws...