Word: trios
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...superb new Rosenkavalier (on 4 LPs). Strauss's swirling, silvery tunes never sounded better. Herbert von Karajan, conducting London's Philharmonia Orchestra and Chorus, is pliant and powerful; Singers Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Teresa Stich-Randall and Christa Ludwig are uniformly excellent. They invest their climactic closing trio with even more than its usual aching grandeur, while Otto Edelmann's Baron Ochs combines authority with the required asininity...
...trades more on parlor fun than private largesse, encouraging its 25 million viewers to get their vicarious thrills by playing Hawkshaw at home. The trick is for the panel of four (Polly Bergen, Kitty Carlisle, Ralph Bellamy, Hy Gardner) and home viewers to tell the real McCoy from a trio that includes two impostors or "side men." Each of the panelists is permitted a few questions to separate the cheats from the right chap, but the liars usually put on a more convincing act than the real item or "central character," and their own occupations often make nice contrasts...
Coach McCurdy afterwards pointed to the performance of the Big Red's Cravener as the crucial one; but he also pointed out that even if the varsity had placed its trio of Norris, Benjamin, and Schlaeppi ahead of the Cornellian, it would still have come off second-best--by a single point...
John C. M. Brust, the Ibis, leads the parade with a dialect behind-the-scenes of recent events in Little Rock. His story involves a trio of Arkansas king-makers who send their boy to the State House, and then are forced to shoot him through the head when he integrates the schools. "Like I said," boasts the narrator, "I'm more broadminded than most, but, hell, I guess you gotta keep niggers in their place...
...know how in hell you found time ... I admit I didn't want you to." Thereupon he wrote Thurber out of the imagined society of efficient journalists and treated him as a sort of basket case. "I was a completely different man," writes Thurber ". . . one of the trio about whom he fretted and fussed continually-the others were Andy [E.B.] White and Wolcott Gibbs. Our illnesses, or moods, or periods of unproductivity were a constant source of worry to him. When I was . . . undergoing a series of eye operations ... he came over [and] snarled, 'Goddam it, Thurber...