Word: thirds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...strode into the hall amid frenetic cheers from 1,642 delegates to the third Congress of the Yugoslav People's Front. While his followers stamped and cried "Tito, Tito!", he mounted the platform and put on his reading glasses. Then, as virulent as ever, he shouted defiance at Joseph Stalin's Cominform. They were trying to foment civil war in Yugoslavia, he cried. They were accusing him of doing business with the Western powers. Cocky Tito pleaded guilty to that charge. "Are we going to trade-that is, buy everything we need and sell everything...
...moment bright young (30) Leonard Bernstein finished reading Poet W. H. Auden's The Age of Anxiety, "a baroque eclogue" in a Third Avenue bar (TIME, July 21, 1947), he felt a "compulsion" to compose a symphony based on it. For two years, on his busy rounds of baton waving and piano playing, he scribbled away from Taos to Tel Aviv, "in planes, in hotel lobbies." Last week Lennie's Symphony No. 2 for Piano and Orchestra was ready...
...when Conductor Serge Koussevitzky got it under way, the audience found No. 2 not at all hard to like. It opened with a quiet conversation between two clarinets-"the loneliest music I know" -symbolizing Auden's characters in the Third Avenue bar. Nearly 30 minutes later, it got to a huge, orgiastic orchestral climax, then resolved into a thoughtful epilogue. Overall, listeners heard more melody and less dissonance than they had come prepared to hear. Standout movement: a rhythmically terrific apotheosis of jazz, with Lennie himself at the piano, backed by bass fiddler and percussion...
Then the wind died. On the third day, the word spread that Slammin' Sam was hot. He got a 67, which moved him up to within one stroke of the lead. On the fourth and final day, a record gallery followed him from the first tee. On every slick green they waited for him to skid. But Sam putted like a master...
...putter. It rolled straight.and true for a birdie, a 67 for the round, 282 for the tournament. Said Sammy: "Who was the bum that started the story about I can't putt?" At 36, after ten tries, Sam Snead had finally won a Masters. It was his third tournament victory in a month...