Word: western
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Eastern National Livestock Show in Timonium, Md., virtually all honors in the Devon bull competition were swept by a Western cattleman. His bulls took blue ribbons for Grand Champion bull, Best Pair of bulls and Best Bull Calf. Owner: Oregon's Democratic Senator Wayne Morse...
...same air of joyous spontaneity. Last week, under Conductor Herbert von Karajan, the orchestra arrived in Manhattan on a 40-day, six-country tour. At each of the concerts, the Viennese played Mozart-Eine Kleine Nachtmusik, Symphony No. 40-and to many listeners the effect was startling. Most Western orchestras play Mozart as if they remembered the 18th century only as the Age of Reason, give the music a cold, chiseled brilliance. The Viennese approach is easy, mellow, almost sentimental, conveying a chamber group's intimacy in place of thrust and stride...
...tacklers. When he hits defensive backs with a low shoulder, he can send them cartwheeling. Last year Brown smashed 1,527 yds. in twelve games to shatter the league ground-gaining record by a fabulous 381 yds. And even the lowly Los Angeles Rams, at the bottom of the Western Conference, can offer Halfback Ollie Matson, 29, whose stride is rated the most beautiful in football, a smooth flow of power that whisks him through the frantic flurry of broken-field blocks and tackles with deceptive ease. On a team that is going nowhere, Matson has broken loose so often...
...Francisco Forty-Niners so hard that they allowed only three first downs, put balding Quarterback Y. A. (for Yelberton Abraham) Tittle in the hospital with a possible fractured knee. Final score: Baltimore 45, San Francisco 14. The victory moved the Colts into a first-place tie in the Western Conference with the Forty-Niners, who have themselves bounced back from a 6-6 season last year largely because of a revamped defense...
...Hollywood Johansson has completed another acting chore in Columbia's All the Young Men. He plays a Swede who joins the U.S. Marines to get his citizenship and is shipped to Korea. So excited is Columbia Bigwig Sam Briskin that he hopes to cast Ingo in a western...