Word: young
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Elizabeth Firestone, 25, an ambitious young musician who wants some day to write musical comedies, took a big step in the right direction. Over a coast-to-coast radio hookup for The Voice of Firestone-sponsored by the rubber company that her grandfather Harvey founded-she played one of her own piano concertos. The audience thought it sounded fine...
...Guido certainly got an early start. His bandmaster father let him conduct his band from a table top at the age of five. At 20, when he had graduated from Milan's Giuseppe Verdi Conservatory, he conducted at the Teatro Coccia at Novara-a theater that the young Toscanini had inaugurated...
Last summer, fed up with years of haggling over conductors, wages, and spokesmen, Seattle's symphony musicians rebelled. After forming their own orchestra (TIME, Aug. 23), they picked their own conductor, a bright, energetic young localite named Eugene Linden. While the old Seattle Symphony's socialite directors screamed "musical mobsters," the new orchestra made music merrily-and successfully-though most of Seattle's mink and 75?-cigar set boycotted the concerts. One reason for the success (and the boycott) was a tall, bosomy woman named Cecilia Schultz, whom the musicians had picked to carry their flag...
Cole knew the wilderness well. His father was an Englishman who opened a wallpaper shop in the frontier town of Steubenville, Ohio, in 1820. An itinerant portraitist dropped in one day, kindly taught young Cole how to make paint brushes from pig bristles. Soon the boy was wandering from town to town, painting portraits. He lugged along a saddle he had accepted in payment for one job, but he had no horse. Resting on his saddle, in the forest between settlements, he learned to know landscape, and his landscapes later made a hit. In five years he had a Manhattan...
...service which is based wholly upon belief in it? Would it be consistent to ask an earnest and convinced Marxian Communist to take official part in a meeting held to pay honor to the Constitution of the United States? . . . The suggestion which such action obviously conveys to the young people who attend the service is that it makes no difference whether they believe the Christian Creed...