Word: users
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fresh ones were "a put-up job." Said a Fordham official: "Young Thorne was a fine athlete, a good student and deeply religious. He served Mass every morning in the school chapel. We would know it here, I assure you, if he had been a drinker or dope user...
...Number, Please. A new telephone with a dial that lights up when the handset is lifted was announced by American Telephone & Telegraph Co. Estimated cost to a user: 25? extra per month...
When Arturo Toscanini made his farewell public appearance with the NBC Symphony two months ago. the world of music sighed with regret. Toscanini himself was so moved that, incredibly, he fumbled an excerpt from Tannhäuser and, for about a minute, lost his place (TIME, April 12). Had the 87-year-old maestro finally reached the end of the score? Last week Toscanini was again conducting the NBC orchestra-in two recording sessions to polish up rough spots in earlier tapings of Verdi operas. The maestro was still in supreme form...
...Wagner operas-Toscanini's mind seemed to be far away. There were passages when his beat was robust as of old. There were other times when he almost stopped conducting, seeming to stand aside, listening to the music. Then the incredible happened: during the Bacchanal from Tannhäuser, the superb orchestra actually became confused. Alert NBC engineers cut the broadcast off the air with an announcement about "operational difficulties." Incongruously, a few bars of Brahms' First Symphony drifted over the air, as a fill-in recording was played in the studio...
...curtain, nearly clipped a couple of principal singers with a fast curtain at the end of Act I. The show, he panted, would go on that night without scenery if necessary. But before curtain time, the stagehands returned, and the evening's opera, a well-tried Tannhäuser, went smoothly...