Word: falling
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Last week the three went on trial in Taipei. First witness up was Secretary Liu, who did not testify as the News had promised. He admitted only that he had stayed in Nanking after the fall of the city, and had talked with the wife of former (1939-42) Nationalist Ambassador to Moscow Shao Li-tze, who subsequently defected to the Communists. He promised her that he would carry on Communist propaganda work once he reached Formosa. But he said that when he told Publisher Lei of his plans, Lei warned him that the security was too strict...
...Millar, 35, is one of three assistant conductors appointed by the Philharmonic this year. Although the orchestra formerly had a single assistant conductor, Bernstein decided a year ago to take on three promising younger men. His reason: young conductors have a hard time getting experience in the U.S. This fall, besides Millar, Bernstein chose Massachusetts-born Rus sell Stanger, 30, and Israeli-born Elyakum Shapira, 33. All three were in the hall at last week's concert when Bernstein walked offstage and announced that he was too ill to return to conduct the next scheduled work-Schumann...
Betting on considerably more than one song, customers, long before the scheduled, late fall Manhattan opening, have already spent more than $3,000,000 on tickets, the biggest advance sale in Broadway history. Producers L. and L. hesitate to advertise, fearing a further deluge of money. Other troubles beset the Camelot team. In the midst of his cutting and rewriting chores. Alan Jay Lerner went to the hospital with a bleeding ulcer,* and Director Hart learned of the death of his 97-year-old father in Miami, retired to his hotel room for three days with nervous fatigue...
...staff will eventually take over President Elliot's old home, at 61 Kirkland St., and a new wing to this structure built by the University, or will occupy a new structure built on the site. Plans for the new home of the Center will be announced later in the fall...
Coach John Molder of Columbia rates his team as an improved, well-balanced outfit. He respects the Crimson, he said last night, but looks for a repetition of last year's tight game. The Lions have lost this fall to Yale and Princeton, and have beaten Fordham...