Word: stringed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Communists, and that, thanks to the astute Murai's maneuvering, the seemingly respectable Nippon Institute was now Communist-controlled. Last week, confronted with the facts, Murai confessed that the party, hard pressed for funds after General MacArthur drove it underground in 1950, had decided to set up a string of phony companies on credit, sell goods quickly for all the. cash they could get, and funnel the money into the party chest. Their first move in what they called "Operation Truck Corps" was to get control of the Nippon Institute, chiefly through Murai. Then they set up a network...
...building of the Moscow subway, he brought in the untutored young tough from the Donets to watchdog the workers. Khrushchev got into the Moscow city party organization in 1931, and when Stalin started liquidating the party leaders Khrushchev quickly put himself on the road to power with a whole string of speeches condemning the fingered Communists as a ''pack of murderers and scoundrels" (1936), "a warning to all who think of raising a hand against our Stalin" (1937)> "a victorious crushing of these Fascist enemies...
...Lorna. She was muffled in a red velvet robe from chin to trim ankle. "It says here," said Malgesto politely, "that you dance the mambo in ballet style." Eda impatiently corrected him: "I dance the mambo in sexy style," dramatically ripped off her robe and with only a G-string to protect her from studio drafts, did her routine. Frantically Paco gestured for his cameramen, but they stood transfixed, and Eda danced inexorably on before the eyes of thousands of Mexicans. When the phones stopped ringing and the censors stopped roaring, Malgesto paid a 5,000-peso fine...
...Strings & Opportunity. For two years the big boom thundered on. "Los Angeles people," Editor Otis loftily assured prospective settlers, "do not carry arms. Indians are a curiosity, the gee string is not a common article of apparel here, and Los Angeles has three good hotels, 27 churches and 350 telephone subscribers." But the boom grew voracious. Real estate was traded over and over in a day; men sold their places in the restive land-office queues, joined the end of the line to begin buying again. Mountaintop lots made paper millionaires out of penniless speculators. Before Harrison Otis could slow...
...novelty on the program was the first local performance of the String Quartet in E (1950) by Robert Middleton '43, assistant professor of Music at Vassar College and a member of the Summer School faculty. Cast in three movements, this is an attractive and conservative work, readily accessible on first hearing. The traditionally shaped first movement is graceful and neoclassical.. The second movement, somewhat more adventurous stylistically, offers a theme and several clearly separated variations. The finale is bright and perky, with much the character of a scherzo...