Word: warmness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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VERDI: REQUIEM (RCA Victor). The virtues of this new recording are the soloists. Carlo Bergonzi is good enough to make the listener forget Jussi Bjoerling's masterly reading of the Ingemisco. Birgit Nilsson is all fire; Lili Chookasian and Ezio Flagello both have big, warm voices. The difficulties stem from Erich Leins-dorf's conducting of the Boston Symphony. The pace is much too slow. The long, dramatic Otello-like lines enshroud the listener rather than move him. Tullio Serafin's interpretation of the Requiem (Angel) is still the best...
...tickets begins. Some wait in line for 48 hours in the rain for the privilege of buying standing room. Moments before the concert begins, Horowitz, tight as a high wire, reaches out to an usher. "Listen," he says, "you're young and healthy. Give me your hands to warm my fingers." "When I felt his hands," Horowitz recalls later, "I drew mine back quickly. Mine were cold, but his were really icy. He was more nervous than I. Everybody was nervous...
...some reason, she got to like it. So she hid in bushes near the starting line in Hopkinton, Mass., waited until the main bunch of runners had disappeared before launching herself onto the course. To disguise her sex, she wore a hooded blue sweatshirt, but when that got too warm, she peeled down to a black swimsuit and Bermuda shorts. For a good portion of the race, she jogged alongside Alton Chamberlain of New York, who said afterward: "She didn't look half as bad as some...
...financing anyone, any time," insists New York Senator Robert F. Kennedy. "And I am not going to endorse anyone in the primary." In effect, if not in intent, some 1966 Democratic primaries look nonetheless like warm-ups for an eventual trial of strength between the Kennedy forces and the Johnson Administration. Among the most significant contests are those in Wisconsin and Tennessee, where two longtime political friends of the Kennedys' are gubernatorial candidates...
...Pitcher Turk Farrell: last week he complained that the saliva on his spitball was freezing up. Then there was Mickey Mantle, who wore gloves to bat-and Whitey Ford, who was desolate when the umpire took away the hot-water bottle he was using to keep his pitching fingers warm...