Word: winter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Misfires & Shrugs. One reason for such achievements: Adler knows music as few opera managers do: he used to be a conductor. A man of charm and inexhaustible energy, Adler spends weeks each winter combing Europe for talent, works 18 hours a day during the season. The logistics for his short season are tricky, with 31 productions of twelve operas scheduled in the San Francisco area in 38 days, and 16 performances of 13 operas set for 17 days in Southern California...
...winter of 1865, in the little English village of Cowley St. John, two miles from Oxford, a group of Anglican clergymen gathered together for sanctuary and religious guidance...
...Hungarian Students in the United States, expressed thanks on their behalf for the help they have received. He awarded a citation to Charles H. Taylor '21, Master of Kirkland House, and Robert S. November '58 in thanks for the two scholarships for Hungarian students which Kirkland House raised last winter...
...mail-order houses and retailers everywhere happily hurled themselves into space. Advertising a $5.89 telescope in its new winter catalogue. Montgomery Ward urged: "Be an earth satellite observer." Spiegel's rocketed away with a "Super Satellite Station" for $3.98. Sears, Roebuck had a $6.37 "Radar Rocket Cannon,'' along with dozens of other fearsome armaments, and practically everyone wanted Tigrett Industries' $20 "Golden Sonic,'' a flying rocket ship powered only by a high-pitched whistle...
...Fortnightly will appear again about next Thursday, Winter said. The organization hopes to change its name to the Harvard Fortnightly, if the Student Council and the Dean's Office approve its constitution. The magazine's directors are now in conference with Dean Watson, hoping to gain this approval, and "we want it made very clear that we're not controlled by an outside source," Winter said...