Word: second
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Milan, Italy, Armando Filiput over time, by ⅜ of a second, to set a new world record of 51.9 sec. for the 440-yd. hurdles...
...second week of the shutdown, Pittsburgh's 3,000 to 3,500 copies of out-of-town dailies made up the major supply of newspapers for a city which normally buys 800,000 papers a day. Early every morning, long lines queued up outside the city's newsstands to scramble for them. Since harried news vendors favored only regular customers, a lively grey market soon started. One surprised traveler, alighting at the railroad station with a Sunday New York Times, was handed 50? for his day-old newspaper. Metropolitan sales of Pittsburgh's Negro weekly, the Courier...
Actually few of the displays merited a second look, but the city's Municipal Art Commission had done a bang-up, Hollywood-style job of putting them before the public and the public apparently enjoyed seeing art in the sunlight. "I don't like galleries," said one elderly park-goer, "they remind me of funerals." His wife agreed: "Outside you don't mind looking at pictures, and even statues, so long as they're not vulgar...
...taken something of a gamble. The new conductor's programming may drive some of the more traditional away from the box office, and 1950 is a poor year for the Philharmonic to do that. The symphony ended last season with an $81,500 deficit. This season, for the second year in a row, subscriptions are down and the Philharmonic has no sponsor for its Sunday broadcasts. Nonetheless, Mitropoulos' arguments have convinced the Philharmonic's board that he is on the right track. He believes that the U.S. can develop a great musical culture...
Last week, when a City Center audience finally heard the result, they brought the house down. Everything clicked: orchestra (under Joseph Rosenstock), scenery (by H. A. Condell) and singers. James Pease made the role of Sachs, the cobbler-poet, glow with gentle wisdom. The little second-act rage of the blonde Eva (Soprano Frances Yeend) was as charmingly impetuous as it should be. Her Walther (young German Heldentenor Hans Beirer) was impassioned, and in notable voice, in the Prize Song. And for once there was a Beckmesser (Baritone Emile Renan) who kept his comedy on the right side of slapstick...