Word: frederick
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1960
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Frederick Henry Boland's chances of becoming the next president of the U.N. General Assembly next fall already seem as surefire as those of a Democratic primary winner running in a final election in the Deep South. Last week he got combined backing of the U.S., Great Britain and Canada. Besides this powerful support, Boland can count on the consistent anticolonial stand of his native Ireland to help win Latin American and Afro-Asian nations. His rival, Czechoslovakia's Jiri Nosek, can count for sure only on the nine votes of the Communist bloc...
Boswell for the Defence: 1769-1774, edited by William K. Wimsatt Jr. and Frederick A. Pottle. The seventh volume in the delightful Yale University series takes Bozzy through his sometimes tumultuous first years as a husband and Edinburgh attorney...
...Orchestra belonged to the crash-bang-and-meander school of modernism, with the violins chasing random single notes in sequence while the cello stuttered insistently, as if trying to interrupt. The whole was something less than the sum of its brilliant parts. Pleasant surprises of the evening were Frederick Jacobi's Yeibichai: Variations for Orchestra on an American Indian Theme, which employed some interestingly experimental orchestral effects, and Lamar Stringfield's Symphonic Ballad, "The Legend of John Henry," which used the traditional folk song ("John Henry said to his captain, 'A man ain't nothing...
...Haven Railroad's President George Alpert, lawyer turned railroadman, at long last decided that one way to cut soaring delays and equipment breakdowns might be to give New Haven veterans a hand at the throttle. Alpert appointed a 24-year employee, Frederick J. Orner, 48, as chief of the road's operations and second in command. Orner, the road's general manager of freight service, had been demoted from assistant vice president in 1956; now he will take over the jobs of two Alpert lieutenants brought in from another road in 1958. Said Orner: "It is fairly...
BOSWELL FOR THE DEFENCE: 1769-1774 (396 pp.)-Edited by William K. Wimsatt Jr. and Frederick A. Pottle-McGraw-Hill...