Word: weeks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last week Baritone Monroe had long since given up his operatic ambitions, was churning out strictly "what was called for." From the bandstand of the heavily upholstered Café Rouge in Manhattan's Statler Hotel, he beamed handsomely at the biggest crowds the nitery had ever seen, contentedly mooed the season's ballads in a domesticated baritone. Behind him were 23 dapper and earnest young men, a quintet of well-groomed young women carefully schooled to furnish a plush vocal cushion for what has been called everything from "The Voice with Hair on its Chest" to the "Million...
...evening last week, a towering, bushy-haired young man strode across the stage of Chicago's Orchestra Hall, took his place on the conductor's stand. The applause was cordially perfunctory. But by the time he had led the Chicago Symphony Orchestra through the bouncing overture to Bedrich Smetana's Bartered Bride, Mozart's Symphony No. 38 (Prague) and Leos Janacek's bone-rattling Taras Bulba, Chicagoans were clapping hard. Thirty-five-year-old Conductor Rafael Kubelik, son of the late great Czech Violinist Jan Kubelik, they decided, was a credit to his father...
...week's end Whitman totted up the results of the crusade. They had sold over 3,000 tickets, almost wiped out their season deficit. The team had won its game with Eastern Oregon 48 to 20. And the Walla Walla alumni had promised to raise enough money to pay half scholarships ($175) for 20 athletes a year...
...fine old campus of broad lawns and red brick buildings, a small but earnest student body (770), high scholastic standing and a sprinkling of noted alumni (among them: U.S. Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas). Whitman took all that for granted. What it was after last week was a football team that could win games in its own league...
...Appreciation. Walla Walla caught the fever. The Boosters' Club proclaimed "A" (for Appreciation) Week. The Chamber of Commerce switched the date of its annual "pigskin party" so that 250 high-school students from nearby towns could see the game. The Chamber's secretary and the town's health inspector rigged themselves up in turtleneck sweaters and knickers as auxiliary cheerleaders...