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...young man (25), Hartack works daily wonders with his extraordinarily sensitive hands and his uncanny communication with the reflexes of a running horse. His parlay of talents has already paid him with a jockey's dream: a swank new house in Miami Springs (midway between Tropical Park and Hialeah), an air-conditioned Cadillac, a speedboat, a big farm (in West Virginia). The calculating look of his eyes, the short forehead sloping away from a long brown pompadour, the narrow, impatient face and snappy, little-boyish swagger convey the presence of a winner...
...about that her voice was going; for her return, she had chosen one of her outstanding roles, and one of the most challenging in the repertory. As Norma, the Druid priestess, Callas came before her audience looking strikingly handsome in flowing robes, her dark hair aglitter with silver leaves. Midway in the first act, when she launched into the opera's most famed aria, Casta Diva, the house was hushed in taut expectancy. All of the familiar intensity was there, and the first notes were luminously clear. But as the aria moved into the upper registers, the voice seemed...
...Lovel the Widower and Philip he merely demonstrated the half-truth of a later dictum that "all authors are musical-boxes which play a limited number of tunes." And yet. at the time of his death he was, like Dickens with Edwin Drood and Stevenson with Weir of Hermiston, midway through what remained a brilliant fragment-Denis Duval, Dickens considered it "the best of all his works...
...Crimson took an early lead, but Brown tied the score. Midway through the first half they pulled ahead by 11 points. The varsity staged a comeback drive in the final period as the lead changed hands several times, but the Crimson was never able to build up a substantial margin. Sparked by co-Captain Joe Tebo, Brown took command near the end of the game...
Every school, says Robert R. Tufts, director of Case Institute of Technology's management-training course, "has a center sag problem. It occurs about midway in the course, and students become frustrated and go into grousing sessions." To help relieve the shock of change, Case and several other schools, e.g., Harvard and Southern Methodist, now provide brief side courses for "management widows," in which wives get a fill-in on their husbands' studies so they will be able to talk over problems with them...