Word: ago
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...year ago Serge Koussevitzky said that he would retire "at the highest point in my career." That, he explained, would be when he had rounded out a quarter-century on Boston's podium. Last week, the milestone passed, his fans gave him a proper Boston goodbye...
...support, Munnings turned to Honorary Academician Extraordinary Winston Churchill, who sat with him at the speakers' table. "Not long ago," he recalled, "Mr. Churchill and I were walking together. Mr. Churchill said to me, 'Alfred, if we saw Picasso coming down this street towards us, would you join me in kicking hard a certain part of him?' I said, 'By God, Winston, I would...
Paul Makushak had succeeded, as far as police could learn, in his desire to be alone. No one except his mother had known he was there. His father, Peter, had been told years ago to stay downstairs, and he had stayed, sleeping in the back of his jumbled first-floor tailor shop and dry-goods store. Peter Makushak rarely saw his wife and believed her story that their son had gone to Canada...
About a year ago the Bishop of London, the Rt. Rev. John William Charles Wand, decided that the time had come to do something drastic about British apathy toward the Anglican Church. The man he chose to organize the job was energetic Frank Tyler, 40, who had been parish priest in two of London's toughest, poorest suburbs. To labor in his teeming new vineyard, Tyler has 15,000 volunteer laymen missionaries. They are plastering London's walls with 55,000 posters, passing out a million handbills, selling 100,000 copies of a picture magazine, peddling Bibles...
...much is it worth to have the President's ear? Two and a half months ago a sympathetic Manhattan jury decided that if the whisperer was Oilman James A. Moffett, it was worth plenty. The jury awarded the onetime FHAdministrator a fat $1,150,000 judgment in his suit against Arabian American Oil Co., Inc. for certain "services rendered" (TIME, Feb. 28). The services, according to Moffett, were very special. Saudi Arabia's King Ibn Saud had demanded an extra $6,000,000 a year from Aramco in 1941, on the threat of tearing up its multi-billion...