Word: strausses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Fingers. Everything was handled with great care. Gangsters Albert ("Big Albert") Anastasia, Abe ("Kid Twist") Reles, Harry ("Pittsburgh Phil") Strauss and Emanuel ("Mendy") Weiss spent weeks in planning. One Jacob Migdon spent a long time "fingering" the job, and reported that Orlofsky, a short, fat man, left his Bronx apartment at exactly 7:55 every morning. Thus, when the big day came, Parisi was standing near by at exactly the right time...
...felt-padded mechanical fingers fitted over the keys, playing the music back with all the expression and personality of the original performer. There was Debussy playing some of his Preludes and his Children's Corner Suite; Saint-Saëns, Faure, Grieg, Scriabin, Falla, Granados, Richard Strauss and Mahler performing their own compositions on the piano. There were kings of the keyboard-DePachmann, Leschetizky, Busoni, D'Albert and famed Conductor-Pianist Arthur Nikisch -playing Chopin, Brahms, Liszt, and their own works...
...program will include: Bach, Passacaglia and Fugue in C minor; Haydn, Symphony in G major, No. 88; Berlioz, Overtime to Beatrice and Benedick; and Strauss, Don Quixote, Fantastic Variations on a Theme of Knightly Character, Op.35...
Patched Pockets. When Levi Strauss & Co. celebrated its looth birthday last week in its San Francisco factory, it had turned out its 95,000,000th pair of Levis. It reserved a special tailor-made pair for California's Governor Earl Warren, who, as a father of six children, praised the low cost (about $3.50) and durability of Levis. Said he: "I'd probably have gone bankrupt without them." Editorialized the San Francisco Chronicle: "We are unable to think of any influence ... that has radiated outward from San Francisco ... to be compared with Levis...
...little with the times. "Alkali," a Virginia City miner, insisted on carrying rock specimens that ripped his hip pockets. The local tailor wearied of repairing them, one day seized a hammer and riveted the corners down with square iron nails. When this made Alkali practically rip-proof, Levi Strauss picked up the idea, from then on fastened all his pants' pockets with copper rivets...