Word: york
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...million of his own, Grandfather Herter said farewell to his family and went off to live in Paris, where a few years later he died of tuberculosis, leaving behind a sadly dwindled fortune and two gifted sons. Son Christian (uncle of Christian Archibald) became an eminent New York surgeon-biologist, suggested to John D. Rockefeller the idea of creating the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research. Strapping son Albert inherited the artistic bent, went to Paris to study painting, grew the inevitable beard, married an aspiring American painter named Adele McGinnis, stayed on in Paris as a bohemian expatriate for several...
...Night in Jail. After graduation from Harvard, cum laude, Chris enrolled at the Columbia University architecture school and New York's School of Applied Design. But at his class's first reunion back at Harvard, in 1916, a classmate who was about to leave for a minor post in the U.S. embassy in Berlin told the aspiring architect about another opening at the embassy, urged him to apply for it. A week later young Herter sailed for Europe with his friend...
...Associated Press Bulletin, New York) Police last night seized a man carrying a makeshift bomb behind the band shell from which Cuban Premier Fidel Castro was addressing a rally of 35,000 in Central Park. More than 1,000 policemen guarded Castro throughout his appearance...
Thompson's instrumental music, while less abundant than his choral work, has also been well received. His second symphony, written in 1932, has been performed over five hundred times, most recently by Leonard Bernstein and the New York Philharmonic. "The best thing about it all," says the composer, "is that my pieces are played over and over again. I'm fortunate enough not to have to worry about getting the usually elusive second hearing...
...fight for its life. It needs $50,000--about one-fifth the cost of a single, big bad musical--to finish the remaining eight weeks of its season, and it must raise "a good chunk" this week in order to stay in existence. Like the Metropolitan Opera, the New York City Center, and the New York Shakespeare Festival. It is forced to appeal for funds. Foundations and rich old ladies are being vigorously canvassed, but a huge amount of money will have to came from private (tax deductible) gifts...