Word: veteran
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Schippers was a fillin. L'Heure Espagnole was to have been led by the veteran Tullio Serafin, 74. But Serafin was ill at his home in Italy. Until a fortnight ago Schippers had never had Ravel's score in his hands, but he is what is known in the heater as a quick study. With his flair for the modern and his incisive baton technique, Schippers came through fine. Ravels music sparkled, and the cast matched it with high-spirited singing and acting...
...Knobloch is a veteran but inept burglar, with a record of four arrests and three convictions. He had finished one stretch in an East Berlin jail and was headed for a trial that might bring him another when he was visited by a top East German secret police bureaucrat known to him only as "Paul." Paul had a bargain to offer. If Knobloch would agree to help kidnap Dr. Walter Linse, the No. 2 man in the anti-Communist Investigating Committee of Free Jurists, he himself would be set free; if he refused, Knobloch would find himself in jail...
Died. James A. Hard, 111, oldest veteran of the Civil War and next-to-last survivor of the Grand Army of the Republic (the last G.A.R. survivor: Albert Woolson, 106, of Duluth, Minn.); in Rochester, N.Y. (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS...
...Hill circus, which made $3,272,505 net after taxes in 1952. Last year, Business Week ran more ads than any other magazine in the world (5,502 pages), and took in an estimated $12 million. Business Week is run by Managing Editor Edgar Grunwald, 43, a McGraw-Hill veteran, while Editor & Publisher Elliott V. Bell, onetime New York State superintendent of banking and Dewey aide, looks after broad policy. The magazine puts little premium on literary graces, but tells businessmen in their own language what is happening in industry, government, technology, etc. And it makes sure that only businessmen...
...picture gives Donald O'Connor, as the irrepressible press attaché, an opportunity to display his pleasant singing voice and limber legs. It also gives veteran Movie Villain George Sanders a chance to play a romantic role for a change, which he does attractively, and to sing for the first time on the screen in an agreeable lyric bass voice...