Word: stucke
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Norm Shepard stuck to his starting five--Smith, Dick Lionette, Jim Gabler, John Stevenson, and Bill Hickey--until well in the second half. Cobler's one-handed push shots and defensive week stood out, as did Hickey's playmaking (HARVARD (68) G F P Smith, rf 9 2 20 Gabler, lf 3 2 8 Redmond 0 1 1 Bramhall 1 0 2 Lionette, c 5 4 14 Murphy, rg 3 2 8 Stevenson 2 0 4 Hickey, lg 4 3 11 Total...
...Manhattan's lower East Side, in a hired hall where such jazzmen as "Wild Bill" Davison and Max Kaminsky blow their horns, the leaders of the U.S. Communist Party assembled last week to tootle their stuck whistles. It was the party's 15th biennial convention. There were placards to set the theme. "Hail the Socialist Soviet Union, Guardian of World Peace," said one. "Seat Red China in the U.N." "Mail Birthday Greetings to Our Leader, William Z. Foster...
...into a world war, to the warm if not so audible defense that he was a great Secretary of State, a brilliant executor of the best of all possible foreign programs. A lot of the charges that the State Department had housed party-liners and homosexuals had obviously stuck. But Acheson had the confidence of Administration Democrats and some support from neutral non-partisans-notably from a Republican ex-Secretary of State, Henry Stimson who, in one of the last acts before his recent death, set himself against Acheson's decriers with the indignant statement: "No one who knows...
Verdi: Quartet in E Minor (the Paganini Quartet; Victor, 2 sides LP). Stuck in Naples, where he had gone to supervise a production of Aïda, Verdi, then 60, decided to "amuse myself" by composing a string quartet-his first and only one. After a private performance, he pronounced it merely a "pastime," refused to have it published. He was too hard on himself: though his quartet is not quite a masterpiece of its kind, its first movement particularly has Verdi's irresistible melodic appeal. Performance and recording: excellent...
...commissioner stuck stubbornly to his edict and Burstyn's lawyers went to court. At week's end, State Supreme Court Justice Henry Clay Greenberg threatened a temporary injunction against the edict. "I am concerned," he said, "with whether the commissioner has a right to set himself up as a dictator." At that point, McCaffrey weakened. While waiting for a full hearing this week, he lifted the ban. That evening, any New Yorker with the price of a ticket ($1.50) could see The Miracle and judge for himself whether it was worth all the todo...