Word: townes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Days After. Europe's most successful realist has risen in classically enterprising fashion from hamble origins. Born Feb. 4, 1897 in the town of Fürth near Nürnberg in Franconia, he was the son of a peasant boy who left his farm to open a dry goods store in town. Badly wounded by a shell at Ypres, Corporal Ludwig Erhard returned home too weak to work in the store. He stayed on at Nürnberg's Commercial College, found his vocation in economics, went on to take his doctor's degree at Frankfurt...
Despite the large attendance at Boston rodeos, there are marked disadvantages to holding rodeos here. Besides not having a fully appreciative audience the cowboys have nothing to do for two weeks except a few show appearances in a town utterly foreign to their ranch backgrounds...
...instead of getting high on his keg of whisky, Noah just gets rosy. Perhaps the unkindest cut will fall on those who especially relished a Babylon that looked like a New Orleans nightclub or a celestial throne that resembled a Negro lawyer's office in a Louisiana town. Said the spokesman: "There has been special emphasis in the physical production to point up the timelessness of the story-the fable aspect rather than any specific place or period...
Anna was performed last week for the first time in the U.S. in more than a century when the American Opera Society opened its fifth season in Manhattan's Town Hall. During its brief lifetime, the company has proved that it can mount operatic oddities with unique skill and flair. Its entire season is already a sellout by subscription alone, and when hundreds of people were turned away for last week's performance, the company quickly scheduled another evening of Anna for next month at Carnegie Hall...
...stories in Harper's and the Saturday Evening Post. The agency admitted paying $500 to the author of "The Giants That Wreck Our Highways," which ran in Everybody's Digest; a film based on another Byoir-inspired article appearing in 1952 went out to small-town theaters under the production banner of the "Farm Roads Foundation." The film credits mention neither Byoir Associates, who wrote the script, nor the railroads, who anted up $60,000 of the production costs...