Word: sure
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Your May 26 story on Pabst's 100 millionth barrel celebration in Mettenheim, Germany, presented an interesting point of view on the value of corporate celebrations that involve the press. There is, as I'm sure you're aware, another side to the story...
Emotion & Poise. Pianist Cliburn played the two main pieces with which he won first prize at the International Tchaikovsky Competition: Tchaikovsky's Concerto No. 1, Rachmaninoff's Concerto No. 3. The conception in both was sweeping, the technique so sure that he rippled off the Rachmaninoff without cuts and with the finger-cracking cadenza that the pianist-composer himself chose not to play. Despite a few nervous smashes in the opening Tchaikovsky, he played with such bravura and nuance that the audience paid him the rare tribute of thunderous applause between movements. After both concertos, as he rushed...
...game for the White Sox in baseball's most embarrassing World Series. Behind him, some of the best players in the history of the game had played like bushers. Shoeless Joe Jackson, perhaps the greatest outfielder of them all, was unaccountably awkward under easy flies; Swede Risberg, the sure-handed shortstop, was fielding grounders with his feet; First Baseman Chick Gandil seemed asleep on the sack. But sawed-off Kerr had pitched his heart out against the Cincinnati Reds (who took the series, 5-3) and won. And not until a year later did Dickie or anyone else know...
...moment, none of the planemakers is sure of customers for the piston aircraft, though there are 1,100 DC-3s and DC-4s around the world that will soon have to be replaced. Even without the assurance of a market, the planemakers will take trade-ins because, according to one. "a trade-in may be just enough to tip a deal your...
...buzzed over the antic notion of an auto trip across Asia and Europe, but within six months five teams were in China, ready to follow the caravan track north and west into the Gobi Desert. There was no need for road maps; there were no roads. There was no sure fuel supply; what was available had been hopefully shipped ahead by camel. But in Peking on the rainy morning of June 10, 1907, one of the roughest car rides since the automobile engine drew its first breath began as casually as a clutch of college boys starting...