Word: rainey
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...husky six-footer, he was inducted, but had been in uniform only a week when he landed in Ireland Army Hospital at Fort Knox, Ky. Captain Robert L. Rainey and Lieut. Colonel David L. Deutsch found nothing wrong with him except dermographia-his skin was so sensitive that they could write on it with their fingers (TIME, Jan. 19). The doctors got him to play basketball. Within 15 minutes the patient had hives and a swollen left eye. He was released from the Army. But allergy to effort is so uncommon that goldbrickers trying to feign it will...
...recital, reported New York Times Music Critic Howard Taubman. was "admirable"-but it got Taubman sore. The artist: 32-year-old, Philadelphia-born Violinist Berl Senofsky. The locale: the Metropolitan Museum's small Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium (700 seats). Wrote Taubman next day: "There is something gravely wrong here. Berl Senofsky is an American violinist who beat all comers to win first prize in the Brussels 1955 competition, and he gets to play in New York as guest of the Metropolitan's Young Artists Series. Leonid Kogan, a Russian violinist [TIME, Jan. 27], who won the Brussels prize...
...President. In 1942 Barker could have made his speech all over again. That year three economists were dismissed from the faculty for having criticized a business crusade against the 40-hour week during the war as a cover for the antilabor views of Texas capital. In 1944 President Homer Rainey bluntly charged that one regent had demanded the heads of three facultymen because they had passed a scholastic rule that made his two sons ineligible for football. Another regent wanted to subject all teachers "to a patriotism test in the form of a questionnaire prepared by himself." As a result...
...JOHN J. RAINEY...
...city's finest new recital halls, which bring music closer to home because they are in residential areas, e.g., the new auditorium of New York University's Law School in Washington Square, which serves as a musical center for lower Manhattan; the wood-lined, acoustically outstanding Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium at the Metropolitan Museum on upper Fifth Avenue, which after three years rivals Town Hall as the city's leading recital hall. Taken all together, New York's out-of-the-way music-comparable to the busy off-Broadway theater-keeps the city astir with...