Word: arounders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...legal, you know. A Virginia fellow saw a reproduction of a picture of mine and he bought it on the phone for $10,000. But I'm quittin' anyway. Of course I'm gonna paint, but I'm not gonna let the dealers push me around any more...
...Washington bureau, anxious to provide guidance for its members, had wired papers around the country for their latest vote estimates. It wrote 300 words of guidance but threw the story away as too inconclusive. Four years from now, sagely suggested the Washington Post's James R. Wiggins, "the A.P. should put out an hourly bulletin reminding its members that an American election is never over until the last vote is counted...
Overnight, Columnist Coffin's shot in the dark was heard around the world. Diplomats in Paris talked it up. The Vatican's Osservatore Romano came out strongly for a meeting between Harry and Joe. Moscow papers gave a significantly big play to a Tass dispatch quoting Coffin's prediction...
...papers flashed headlines on a crash 375 miles outside Buenos Aires, and another in Bolivia's mountains (where one car plunged over a 600-foot precipice, killing driver and mechanic). But the boldest type was reserved for the Gálvez brothers, Oscar and Juan, who were whisking around dangerous hairpin turns as if they had designed them. Oscar, in his red Ford with Viva Perón painted on it, won the first leg from B.A. to Salta, and then the second and third legs. Argentine fans, who take auto racing as seriously as football and politics, nicknamed...
...first, the audience in Pittsburgh's Syria Mosque was stunned by De Sabata's strange choreography on the podium-he seemed to be dancing everything from a tarantella to a sabre dance. But by the time he had driven Berlioz' old warhorse around the course, whipping it for all it was worth, the audience couldn't get to its feet fast enough. The passion and power he found in César Franck's over-explored symphony won him another wild ovation before intermission. And by the time his program was over, Victor de Sabata...