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...musicians have apparently responded to Club 47's call for help. Wellknown musicians have been appearing lately, drawing capacity crowds. The club cannot afford to pay famous performers what they usually earn, so Linardos is paying them whatever he can afford at the moment...
...concert, under the direction of Robert Craft, a young disciple of the composer, began with Greeting Prelude, which Stravinsky wrote in 1955 for Pierre Monteux's 80th birthday. It is merely an elaborated fanfare on the wellknown "Happy Birthday To You" tune...
...rocket reaches the speed of 1,900 m.p.h. in six seconds. The second bottle takes over at 40,000 ft. and boosts the speed to 3,800 m.p.h. Only the simplest gear is needed for the launching, and the whole outfit costs less than the fins of one wellknown military rocket...
...York City Ballet's celebrated production The Cage (TIME, June 25, 1951), in which the characters are costumed as giant insects-and the females first attract, then destroy the males. A few Londoners might find it puzzling, but not the editors of Picture Post. It was a wellknown U.S. phenomenon: "The women oi America ... eat their men until nothing is left but the inevitable gastric ulcer and a series of figures in blood red on a debilitated bank-statement form...
Theses can mention the names of pertinent persons, places, and things, the announcement continues, "where (1) concealment or disguise clearly reduces or vitiates the scientific value of the thesis, or (2) the persons, places, institutions and events are so transparently wellknown to the public that no harm can come to them from the study...