Word: usual
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...their third record album the Dunster Dunces attempt, with spirit and some courage, to prove they are different. So they sing arrangements in styles from J.S. Bach to Ralph Burns to pseudo-Elvis Presley, venturing beyond the time-tested realms of usual college groups, like the Whiffen-poofs. But the danger in being daringly different is that to be successful, you must usually be not only unusual, but good...
Joslin scored three more tries, one on a 75-yd. run, and Damis one more, and they were joined in the scoring column by Joe Conzelman, Tom Fritz, and Ron Eikenberry. Scrum-half Alan Waddell played his usual outstanding game, and the forwards kept control of the ball for the Crimson for almost the whole match...
...Just blown in from an African safari, Impresario Godfrey commented through a frozen smile: "My dear friend Paul better come to a little. He owes a great deal to people, just as I do." Meanwhile, Manhattan's Huckster Row was frothing at the mouth even more than usual over another Douglasism, same interview: "It's now the problem of the eleven-year-old mind on Madison Avenue trying to catch up with its own 13-year-old adult [audience...
...farewell to his mother, the sure delicacy of his voice topped off by his rough parting cry: "Un bacio, mamma, addio!" After the intermission, the other local man showed up in Pagliacci, costumed in disreputable red wig, striped T shirt and ill-fitting green jacket. Leonard Warren was, as usual, a powerfully resonant Tonio, alternately strutting and servile as he paced in front of the curtain and expounded Leoncavallo's advice to the audience that an actor is "a man with a heart like yours," and that "what he tells you is true." Playing Tonio with vacuous smile...
With color photographs accounting for 30% of the market last year, U.S. companies had better film, new lines of inexpensive cameras for color fans, including a Kodak "Starflash" selling for as little as $8.50. As usual, the biggest news was the hot rivalry between German and Japanese cameramakers, which will make Americans the world's luckiest camera fans. From the Germans, whose 1956 U.S. sales ($8,600,000) were 14% of their total production, came subtle refinements of a product that dominated the world market for 30 years. From the Japanese, whose 1956 U.S. sales ($7,000,000) were...