Word: play
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Whose Play? Gromyko managed a game smile, then recovered to retort: "I should like to ask from what play all this has been taken, and when that play is going to be performed." Replied Lodge: "It is not out of any play ... I produced that to show the thoroughness of Soviet espionage." It was all faintly funny, and Basile Vitsaxis, the Greek delegate...
Negro Outfielder Willie Mays finally decided that San Francisco is a good place to play baseball-but he doesn't want to live there. When the Giants moved to San Francisco after the 1957 season, Mays bought a $37,500 home in the all-white Sherwood Forest district. Almost no Sher wood Foresters came to be friendly toward Mays, his wife and their adopted son; many continued to snub them. This week the Mayses, having sold their...
...Dukes are headed by two brothers from New Orleans: Frank and Fred Assunto. Trumpeter Frank, 28, and Trombonist Fred, 30, learned to play from their father, a onetime high school music teacher and now a regular member of the seven-man band (trombone and banjo). Too young to hear original Dixieland, the brothers listened to the New Orleans greats on records, played on weekends (for $3 a night) in pickup combos, formed their first band while they were still in high school. Their recent success they owe chiefly,to records: Audio Fidelity has issued eleven fast-selling albums...
...energetic, hard-drinking man ("He discovered some years ago," said a friend, "that Scotch is the perfect antidote for platinum poisoning"), Kinkaid, 65, has a reputation for driving his students, often summoned them to his house on weekends to play. He himself is so fascinated by the production of sound that he has been known to sit at a soda fountain blowing through a straw in an effort to alter its tone. Even after his retirement from the orchestra, he will continue to teach. His replacement: James Pellerite, formerly of the Detroit Symphony. He is, of course, a student...
...Gstaad (Aug. 8-18). Founded three years ago by longtime Summer Resident Yehudi Menuhin, it now attracts front-rank musicians who are hand-picked by Yehudi. get no fee. In the 14th century Protestant Church of Saanen. the wealthy chalet set will this year hear Yehudi play with the Zurich Chamber Music Orchestra and his sister Hepzibah in a series devoted to works of Schubert, Debussy, Beethoven, Bach, Haydn and Mozart...