Word: thursdays
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Thursday in New York, a day like other days perhaps, but this day seemed to have a special tantalizing humdrum something. This was not the day Lincoln was shot or Normandy was invaded, not the day Pearl Harbor was bombed or Fort Sumter was fired on. What this day was (and few would know it until it moved to its inexorable climax) was the most uneventful Thursday in American history...
What did not happen on Thursday? Well, LeRoy Goss missed the 8:09 New York local from Bronxville. Any doubt that the train may have left is banished by a well-preserved photo of the empty tracks of the New York Central (looking south). Later that day the hapless Goss would fail to heed his wife's injunction to buy parakeet food. And so it goes. All in all, as Poe would say, a most immemorial day-and a satire to remember, at least for a few days...
Much of the musicians' five-day stay in the Boston area will be taken up by concerts and rehearsals. The composers will join in Boston Symphony Orchestra rehearsals Wednesday afternoon and most of Thursday. Some of their works will be performed in the BSO concerts Friday at 2.15 p.m. and Saturday at 8:30 p.m., at Symphony Hall...
...delegation will also attend the New England Conservatory's Symphony Orchestra concert Thursday evening in Jordan Hall...
WASHINGTON, Nov. 5--Robert E. Kinter, admitting his own National Broadcasting Co. had been victimized by quiz show fakery, suggested Thursday that Congress pass a law to jail TV program cheaters...