Word: sternly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Despite the stern trials of concert and recording, Rudolf Serkin loves music more than ever, but he misses the old days of chamber music with the Busches, and he has organized a Vermont summer school especially for ensemble playing. It brings him together with other musicians. "Being just a pianist," he says, "is a very lonesome thing...
...want me to die, you had better give me at least a blanket." Even with two blankets bought with a special appropriation ($70), Don Luigi was not comfortable enough to stay on and cast a precious vote for Scelba. But to Italy's divided politicians, he delivered a stern and moving sermon on what lies behind Italy's great political and economic sickness (see box). It was the first formal parliamentary speech he had ever made...
Opening the Diet last week, frock-coated Emperor Hirohito pleaded for taibo seikatsu-austerity living. Two days later, foxy old Premier Shigeru Yoshida explained what the austerity is for: to check Japan's ominous inflation, and, by stern cuts in government civil spending, to make room in Yoshida's trillion-yen ($2,780,000,000) budget for Japan's burgeoning rearmament...
...gloomy in Groton, Conn, on the day the revolutionary Nautilus was launched. An old London fog enveloped New London, across the river, and the crowd of 15,000 that gathered around the bow of the world's first nuclear-powered submarine last week could not even see the stern. Nevertheless, the occasion was an auspicious and a proud one for the Navy. For Rear Admiral Ffyman Rickover (TIME, Jan. 11), it was the fulfillment of a dream, the end of a bitter, seven-year fight to introduce atomic power to the Navy...
...eyes, a mouthful of flashing gold teeth, and the booming voice of a sideshow barker. But energetic, stubby (5 ft. 8¾ in., 220 Ibs.) Harry Grant did not act like the run of carefree yachtsmen. When he was not tending the deep-sea fishing line trailing over the stern, he riffled through mountains of papers, pounded out letters and memos on a portable typewriter, talked by ship-to-shore phone...