Word: stone
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...week announcer on a local station, went on to Cincinnati Conservatory of Music with ambitions of becoming a professional concert baritone. "But the folks was havin' to scratch and grind for a few bucks," so Ernie went back to odd radio jobs. In California he joined Hillbilly Cliffie Stone's local show, Hometown Jamboree, and made some records (Mule Train, Shotgun Boogie) that led to a guest appearance in Las Vegas. "I was scared to death to play before an audience of sophisticates and gamblers." In 1955, with his driving, metronome sense of rhythm, he recorded a coal...
Everywhere there are signs of the prodigious energy of the most dynamic and disturbing artist of his time. Ferocious bronze owls glare from under the palms, a huge stone head of a woman lies in the basin of the fountain, plywood pipe-players are scattered about the lawn. Inside, the three main rooms are jammed. Canvases crowd the walls, spill out of crates. Weird ceramics stand in disheveled confusion on the floor. The rest of the space is taken up by a litter of objects that Picasso collects compulsively, objects that may set him off on a new theme...
...field events, Jack Cooksey of Winthrop won the discus with a toss of 107 feet, 7 inches. Frank Weller of Adams won the broad jump with a leap of 19 feet, 10 1/2 inches while Greg Stone took first place in the shotput at 51-3. Bob Travis won the only first place for Kirkland by taking the javelin with a throw of 157 feet, 10 inches. Frank Weller also won the high jump at 6 feet, 1 3/4 inches a new record in house competition...
Disaster struck the following day. In bold headlines, the paper lamented, "Tom Burke Disabled. The Half-Mile Champion Lame in England. Setback to the Chances of Harvard and Yale." The article went on to explain the nature of Burke's ailment, an old stone bruise, and said," Burke is almost broken-hearted over the misfortune. Fortunately, Adams, the American second-string half-miler appears to be in superb condition...
...announcement that he was planning to put Vincent van Gogh on the operatic stage at first brought howls of protest from critics who believed that it was his duty to choose a Turkish theme. But most criticism ended with the first performance in Ankara. The libretto altered Irving Stone's fictionalized Van Gogh biography, Lust for Life, and reduced it to five scenes: London, in front of the house of Van Gogh's first love, who rejects him with a shout of "you redheaded fool"; Etten, Holland, in front of the Van Gogh's home, where...