Word: yearlong
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Three months ago, Soviet Ambassador Mikhail Sergeev arrived in Athens bubbling gracious compliments in fluent Greek. The first Soviet ambassador to Athens since 1947, Sergeev had a tough assignment: to dispel the bitterness against Soviet Russia that still lingers from the Communists' bloody, two-yearlong civil war (1947-49) against the Greek government...
When her husband was sent to France in 1951, Louise and the two children went along, and she began to compose in earnest. Her biggest (yearlong) musical problem to date: scheming up the orchestral part for La Fete. Although she was unfamiliar with the instruments, she visualized a solution. "To me," she says, "an orchestra is like a palette of a painter. I see the instruments as colors: trumpets are red, violins are green, flutes are blue...
...settling the yearlong American Federation of Musicians' strike against the recordmakers; as boss of Columbia Records, Inc., he was in the midst of the battle with RCA over long-playing records. In 1949, he moved on to Mutual Broadcasting System. As president, he spruced up management, found new local sponsors, and perked up programing. By last May, when his three-year contract with Mutual (at $100,000 a year) expired, the network's billings were $3,000,000 a year bigger, and White moved over to NBC as a vice president...