Word: 20th
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...least 50 musicians of the 20th Century have earned a million dollars or more in the course of their careers. So reported Variety last week. Tops of them all-in fact, the greatest musical earner of all times-is the late great Polish pianist, Ignace Jan Paderewski, whose money-making record embraces three firsts: 1) grandest grand total: close to $5,000,000; 2) biggest single season's earnings: $500,000 (for 1922-23); 3) alltime record for a single concert: $33,000 (in Manhattan's Madison Square Garden). Only two other pianists, Rachmaninoff and Hofmann, have topped...
Necessary. Nothing could be more natural than that out of the tradition of Irish, Scottish and English whimsy the gremlin should appear, streamlined for the 20th Century. There is a sociological and psychological necessity in the thinking of Anglo-Saxon-Celtic peoples to conjure up the embodiment of fate in a charming form. Herr Goebbels in Berlin would not understand...
This paradoxical pronouncement that love & hate are coeternal is the profoundest wisdom that Spender has to offer-half a lifetime after he, a sensitive rebel, repudiated the numb world of 20th-Century English idealism to look for new answers to life & death...
...could do anything Hellinger could do and do it better. At first he so loathed California that his wife bet him a dozen of his famed cacophonous Charvet ties that he wouldn't last four weeks. He stuck it out five months at RKO, signed a contract with 20th Century-Fox, and has since become, in most respects, an acclimated if eccentric Hollywoodsman...
Outstanding among Cleveland's many human assets is Louis B. Seltzer, able, active editor of the Cleveland Press. He decided it was high time Ohio's 20th District elected a war-minded, world-minded Democratic Congressman to replace British-hating, New Deal-hating Martin L. Sweeney. Editor Seltzer printed sober, painstaking front-page stories that vivisected Martin Sweeney's ten-year obstructionist record and just as calmly boosted young (37), modest, energetic Michael A. Feighan, who had a good record in Ohio's legislature...