Word: wagnerism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Minnesota's Senator Hubert Humphrey, 185 votes; Attorney General Bobby Kennedy, 166; U.N. Ambassador Adlai Stevenson, 75; New York City Mayor Robert Wagner, 47; Peace Corps Director Sargent Shriver, 43; California's Governor Pat Brown, 37; Minnesota's Senator Eugene McCarthy, 28; Connecticut's Senator Abraham Ribicoff, 24; Assistant Secretary of Commerce Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr., 21; and Missouri's Senator Stuart Symington...
Died. Gorgeous George, 48, who got nowhere in professional wrestling as plain George Wagner until he changed his name, did his peroxided hair in pageboys and upsweeps, after which wrestling fans gladly paid him $70,000 a year for ten peak years in the late 1940s and early '50s to see him take his lumps from the regular guys; of a heart attack; in Los Angeles...
...interpreters have brought to his varied music all the resources of modern instrumentation-and all the scholarly weight of a new musicology that insists on a strictly paleontological presentation. One side, mainly distinguished by the presence of Eugene Ormandy, plays Bach with a flourish and sensuality better saved for Wagner; the other side, which at its extreme is manned by cliques of musical pedants who play in ensembles with names like Pro Arta Antarctica, believes Bach must never be played away from the harpsichord and organ. In the artistic center of the interpretive storm are a number of impeccably good...
...result is a new breed of specialists in "customized" bathrooms. In fact, bathrooms are becoming a prestige item on the scales of conspicuous consumption, a place swimming pools used to hold before everybody had one. Luxury Lavatorist Sherle Wagner of Manhattan's 57th Street is selling baroque swans, dolphins, Cupids and sea horses for spouts and faucet handles as fast as he can gold-plate them, at $129.50 to $800 a set. Cut crystal is in, too, and the most sophisticated of all is pewter with gold decoration. "And, of course, marble like mad," says Wagner. "We just finished...
Died. Michael Delia Rocca, 62, the Long Island shoemaker who answered The $64,000 Question on CBS-TV in 1956 (a 14-part question involving Wagner premières, Caruso's teachers and a 1908 performance of Aïda), was never involved in subsequent scandals, spent much of his prize bankrolling his hobby, amateur opera performances; of cancer; in Baldwin...