Word: trailing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Sopranos. Tebaldi's rising star inevitably collided with the fiery trail of Maria Meneghini Callas. When they both embarked on South American tours in 1951, an ill-advised concert manager placed them on the same program in Rio, and Tebaldi slipped in several encores-in flagrant violation, Callas claimed, of a no-encore agreement. At a supper party, Callas charged Tebaldi with this and other sins, lectured her for her recent flop in Traviata. "We parted," says Tebaldi, "with a certain coldness...
...Nielsen Rating's top ten. TV producers recognize a mother lode when they see one, and they have moved with mule-skinner determination to pile it even higher: by last week a nerve-shattering total of eleven new westerns was slogging along the TV trail. And no one was slogging with more enthusiasm than a tall, balding journeyman writer-producer named Frank Gruber, 54, who has hacked out more words, he claims, than any other living writer. Nearly all of the words have been western...
...perhaps even greater state-wide significance--the fight for control of the Legislature. Never in the history of the Commonwealth have the Democrats held majorities in both the House and the Senate. This year however, they go into the election with a fairly comfortable majority in the House, and trail by the slight margin of 21 to 19 in the Senate...
...been transferred from Washington to nearby Fort Riley. A boyhood friend, Abe Forney, who had worked with Ike hauling ice at Belle Springs Creamery, came up, told Ike how well he looked. The President wagged his head and said, "If I can live two more years . . .", let his voice trail off. Said Abe Forney: "You will...
...face-saving in Sendai City, 190 miles north of Tokyo, was a symptom of the ills that have turned Japan's press into a flabby-muscled giant. The 186 Japanese dailies have built up a daily circulation of nearly 36 million, trail only the U.S. (58 million) and Russia (57 million), exceed the rest of Asia, Africa and South America combined. In ratio to population, the Japanese circulation approximates that of the U.S., far exceeds Russia's. Biggest Japanese daily is Tokyo's outsized Asahi, which has four regional publishing plants and a staff of more than...