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...Director Webster had hoped to have the whole cast on the stage "for at least three hours, totally mine, in which the conductor does not interfere at all." She never got it. She quickly learned that opera is a compromise between the eye & the ear-and that "the Met's great god is time." Even when Conductor Stiedry was not rushing up from the pit to correct an eighth note, or Designer Gerard was not moving a table or chair, she felt "them" creeping in on her: "The orchestra manager looking at his wrist watch and peering earnestly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Verdi & the Lady | 11/13/1950 | See Source »

...Four more manufacturers (Belmont, Webster, Muntz and the Television Equipment Corp.) broke ranks, joined Emerson, Celomat and Tele-tone in promising to make CBS color equipment. Tele-tone, with sets already in the works, said it would have quantity production by Jan. 1. Crowed CBS President Frank Stanton in full-page newspaper ads: "CBS welcomes Tele-tone-the first set manufacturer to bring you color television...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: The Color War | 10/30/1950 | See Source »

...looked in Encyclopedia Britannica, Webster's unabridged dictionary, Thrall's Handbook to Literature, the Oxford Dictionary, and several other smaller references, to no avail. What does clerihew mean...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 2, 1950 | 10/2/1950 | See Source »

Gerald Kilb Vogel '50, Economics; Richard Allen Webster '50, Philosophy; William Vandervoort Whitehead '50, English; David Herndon Wright '50, Fine Arts; Harrison Morris Wright, '50, History; Michael Bezalel Yarmolinsky '50, Biology; Raymond Edward Zelder '50, Economics; Harold Zirin '50, Astronomy; Edward Edom Zukoski '50, Engineering Sciences; Melvin Leonard Zurier '50, Government...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Brooks Addresses 94 New PBK Members | 6/20/1950 | See Source »

...Edna Ferber and George S. Kaufman. 2. Gypsy Rose Lee and her husband. 3. The Shuberts. 4. Rodgers and Hammerstein. 5. Maurice Evans and Margaret Webster...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PERSONALITIES IN THE NEWS, Jun. 19, 1950 | 6/19/1950 | See Source »

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