Word: acted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...even Soprano Alda-aped Basso Segurola by wearing monocles.When Segurola put on his top hat, he was showered with white dust: Caruso had thoughtfully poured flour into it. Baritone Scotti squirted seltzer water in Alda's face. Instead of nibbling at stage fare in the cafe scene of Act II, they sat down with relish to a chicken dinner-and more champagne -ordered in from an Italian restaurant...
...most memorable moment was one that few listeners were aware of. In the last act, with Mimi a-dying, Segurola (known mainly to a later generation as Deanna Durbin's teacher) suddenly turned to Caruso and whispered hoarsely that he could not manage his final aria, the "Coat Song." Grated the basso: "I've lost my voice...
Secretary Brannan is willing to "do something for beef" and for just about every other farm product in the book (TIME, April 18). With the Hope-Aiken Act set to function in 1950, providing for a lower and more flexible level of price supports, he has advanced a counterplan to commit Agriculture to a permanent policy of high price pegs. The Brannan plan brushes aside any idea of a gradual reduction of price props, and substitutes much higher support prices pegged to an "income support standard." This would guarantee farmers an income as fat as the one they have enjoyed...
...locating his store on a busy highway near the Indiana line and selling at cut rates, Meyer Jacob had become one of Chicago's biggest liquor dealers. But when the state legislature passed the Mandatory Fair Trade Act in July 1947, the state liquor commission tried to suspend his license for selling Penn Springs whisky 95? cheaper than the fair trade (i.e., minimum retail) price. Jacob kept his license while he fought the case through the courts...
Last week the Illinois Supreme Court threw out the Mandatory Fair Trade Act, the fourth time in six months that state courts have invalidated such laws. The court did not rule on the legality of price-fixing itself. It simply held that the Illinois law was so poorly drawn that it was impossible for "every person [to] know its meaning . . . and his rights...