Word: stringed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first string of the all-star team is made up of forwards John Hurst of Lowell and Deacon Robert Higgins; guards Robert Gorman and George Doyle, both of Winthrop; and Funster center Burton Berson...
...sound," says one expert, "is like the term love. It means whatever you choose it to mean." Hi-fi is, in fact, an attitude-a kind of passion to reproduce music exactly as it sounded in its natural setting, e.g., a symphony orchestra in a full concert hall, a string quartet in an intimate room. Record companies tag their output with such slogans as "Full Dimensional Sound" (Capitol), "New Orthophonic" (Victor), "Ultra High Fidelity" (Vox). Says one cynical executive: "High fidelity is the chlorophyll of the record business...
Another of the Crimson's distance runners, Don French, continued the varsity's string of upsets when he sprinted past Yale's Marty Duckworth in the last lap of the two mile, taking...
President Henderson has expanded a three-hotel combine into a $165 million string of 31 hotels, by buying such stately old structures as Boston's Copley Plaza and San Francisco's Palace, changing their names and, by more efficient chain operations, their profit picture. His latest purchase, for $5,000,000: Los Angeles' Town House, which Conrad Hilton sold to Oilman Roy Crummer in 1953. (Hilton will continue operating it under Sheraton ownership until next October.) The results of Sheraton's expansion have been so good that a share of Sheraton stock bought...
...Wages of Fear (Filmsonor; International Affiliates) opens with a shot of four fat roaches, tied at intervals along a piece of string. They struggle in the dust, their bright legs flailing in desperation, but they cannot escape the fateful thread that links them one to another-links them, perhaps, to some higher meaning? The camera lifts, to stare at a small boy who stares down mindlessly at his wretched playthings. After a while he picks up the string and wanders away...