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At 12:30 a faint cry of "track" floated down from the foggy heights. Dartmouth's Robert Stewart shot down the mountain's face, flashed narrowly through the ravine and across the flat into the tricky turns on the wooded trail. He was averaging better than 50 miles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: And No Bones Broken | 4/21/1952 | See Source »

Handel was above all a choral composer, and the extensive passages for chorus in Semele require a first-rank ensemble with clear texture and plenty of volume. The Lowell Musical Society was very fortunate to have the services of Hewitt Pantaleoni '52, an industrious, capable chorus director. The group sounded...

Author: By Lawrence R. Casler, | Title: Semele | 3/27/1952 | See Source »

Among the Big Three (Chrysler, Ford, and GM) with their large research departments, new models show the effects of both a horsepower race and a sort of shell game with styling tricks. GM has boosted horsepower on its Buick, Oldsmobile, and Cadillac lines by using a tricky and expensive ($65.00...

Author: By William Burden, | Title: All New for '52 | 3/21/1952 | See Source »

The music went on and I began to get interested. It seemed tricky and pleasant; it was the feeling you get from looking at a midget juggling ice cubes. I looked smilingly at my companion. He looked dejected.

Author: By Herbert S. Meyers, | Title: Real Cerebral | 3/4/1952 | See Source »

But for singers and musicians, things have not improved so much. If the musicians play loud enough for a singer to hear them distinctly, they may find themselves playing too loud for televiewers to hear anything else. Soprano Marguerite Piazza has to go it alone in her operatic arias, trusting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Come of Age | 2/25/1952 | See Source »

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