Word: alberts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...black and multicolored robes filed across the "front campus" before famed old Nassau Hall. There, 6,000 spectators, seated in shadows under Princeton's elms ("An adorable place, is it not?" Woodrow Wilson used to say), cheered whenever they recognized a celebrity. There were, besides Home-Towner Albert Einstein, Selman Abraham Waksman, the discoverer of streptomycin...
...London, Hollywood's Gloria Jean, ex-cinemoppet-turned-ingenue, fainted onstage as she was singing a lullaby. Responsible, she guessed, was "the unhappy business about my singing the Lord's Prayer." London critics, who considered the song (by Albert Hay Malotte) in bad taste, had vigorously lambasted her that morning. Unfortunate details noted by the Daily Express: she had dedicated the piece to "the people of Britain," and sung it "with the line about 'trespasses' changed to 'forgive us our debts...
...took a job in the Treasury-and quickly discovered that "dear Coleridge" had been talking through his hat. Nonetheless, every night for years Read fought his tired brain, turned out poems and essays. Finally, he found a more congenial job as a curator of ceramics in the Victoria and Albert Museum...
...three: Democrat Albert A. Ridge, onetime bugler in Harry Truman's Battery D; Truman Crony J. Caskie Collet; Republican Albert L. Reeves Sr., whose son defeated Enos Axtell, Harry Truman's nominee to succeed Slaughter, in the November elections...
...third, Albert Herring, will have its British premiere this month...