Word: program
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...twelve Atlantic pact nations met in Paris last week to put final touches and a stamp of approval on "strategic concepts for the integrated defense of the North Atlantic area." This was necessary to get the first $1 billion of U.S. military aid rolling; in approving the military assistance program for the U.S.'s allies, Congress had stipulated that Western Europe's defense must be certified feasible by the military chiefs before any funds could be expended...
...Francisco's gold and red plush opera house, onetime Child Prodigy Yehudi Menuhin, 33, observed the 25th anniversary of his debut as a violinist with a program of sonatas by Tartini, Bach and Beethoven. Of the concert he said: "I just go on pounding away; you could say I've passed the millionth note...
Kyser does not play up to the TV camera, because "if I'm having fun I ain't looking anywhere." Program suggestions from his sponsor (Ford Dealers) and TV Director Earl Ebi are welcome so long as they do not violate the College's basic Simple-Simon format. Remembering the one disastrous show that resulted when he took his wife's advice, Kyser says firmly: "It's only when you try to get too professional and want to class it up that you fall flat on your face...
Seldom has a melodrama flashed so many tricks of the trade-pianos, radios, telephones, striking clocks, blinking lights, swinging doors, even false statements in the program. Yet The Closing Door is much more seriously written than the usual thriller and is full of clinical detail and therapeutic advice, some of it Freud and some of it scrambled. If this adds to the weight of the play, it only proves, in terms of good melodrama, a dead weight. Toward the end, however, as the adolescent events that poisoned Vail's life emerge simultaneously with the frightful method he took...
Following Moors' speech dedicating the new building, which he built in honor of his mother, Mary Buckminster Moors, carol selections by the Radcliffe Choral Society concluded the program...