Word: strides
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this plant-doubling, Aluminum Co. set aside $150,000,000 of its own money, earned 1940's gold medal for silent, voluntary expansion for the Defense program. Its soft-shirted, soft-voiced management took the Revolution in its stride. When a new TVA appropriation came up last summer. Aluminum men, who knew they would need extra kilowatts if Defense lasted, helped the Administration lobby it through Congress. Yet the year's end found even Aluminum, Co. behind on deliveries. Sadly it prepared an advertising campaign for the peacetime customers it wants to keep. The copy: "If you find...
...Philadelphia's Academy of Music, the young, hard-working Philadelphia Opera Company hit the stride of its third season with a performance in English of the best-known Czech opera: Bedŕich Smetana's The Bartered Bride. Managed by tall, lean C. David Hocker, musically directed by short, swart Sylvan Levin, the Philadelphia troupe has 22 singers, average age about 27, all but one homegrown. The simple fooleries of The Bartered Bride, set to simple, polka-dotted tunes, showed off some notable young talent: Basso Luke Matz (music supervisor in the Unionville, Pa. public school...
...great moment for Woody Van Dyke, who loves pomp and patriotism even more than pictures. Last fall he hung the stars and stripes outside his studio office, tacked up a sign proclaiming it a Marine recruiting station. After Thursday-night drills with his outfit, Woody would stride into Chasen's restaurant and climb aboard a stool in full regimental regalia. Hollywood said good-by to Woody at a formal dinner for 500 on an M. G. M. sound stage climaxed by a hectic scuffle for the check by the studio, the Screen Directors Guild, Producer Edward Mannix...
Upon the capable shoulders of Junior Charley Spreyer rests the bulk of Crimson hopes. He has been credited with inspired performances in the Penn and Brown games, carrying Harvard over the top with him. Actually, it may be that Spreyer was just hitting his real stride in those last two games. Sickness and injuries have retarded his progress all year. In 1939 he "arrived" in the Army game, but this year it took a bit longer. Now he is in good shape and ready for the effort of his career. At least, that is one way to look at Charley...
...Hampton Institute, in whose choir her voice began. This season Dorothy Maynor has engagements in 27 States, is making two big cross-country tours. Boxofficially she is not yet the peer of big-voiced Contralto Marian Anderson, who sells out Carnegie Hall. But Dorothy Maynor is just hitting her stride...