Word: weekending
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Anyone who would like to hear an absolutely brilliant opera buffa has a golden opportunity this weekend. For their annual operatic production, the Lowell House Music Society is fortunate to present the premiere of Divertimento by John Perkins '58. Mr. Perkins has succeeded in turning out a work which should take its place among the very best comic operas...
...weekend crowded with theatrical productions, it would be unfortunate if this one were slighted. Mr. Perkins' opera deserves to be heard in what is hopefully the first of its many productions...
...Darkening Continent. On the first leg of his 1952 reporting safari for Inside Africa, Gunther awoke to another nightmare: he was going blind. With cataracts closing over both eyes, he explored the darkening continent for 10^ months and 40,000 miles without even a weekend off, ground out nine magazine articles on the road. Unable to read his minute reporter's scribble, he could never have finished the assignment if willowy, tough-fibered Jane had not been along. She scrawled notes on interviews, digested reams of background material, took thousands of photographs for Gunther to pore over back...
What had gone wrong with the rebel cause? It was not a lack of arms. Their Premier, Sjafruddin, boasted last week that there was ammunition enough for a ten years' war. Over the weekend, two more airdrops of arms occurred at Bukittinggi, parachuted down from planes of "unknown" nationality, reputedly Nationalist Chinese...
...Flash Like Lightning. Actress Taylor, mother of Todd's infant daughter, was running a 102° temperature and gave up plans to go with her husband on his flight to New York last weekend. Bound for a Friars Club dinner honoring him as the showman of the year, Todd took off from Burbank in his twelve-passenger Lockheed Lodestar with Pilot William Verner, 45, Copilot Tom Barclay, 34. and Art Cohn, 49, a film scriptwriter and biographer who was writing The First Nine Lives of Mike Todd. Over the badlands of the Zuni Indian country west of Albuquerque...