Word: bachelors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera House seemed altogether satisfied when Beethoven's Fidelia was given there last week, taken out of storage for the first time in six years because Soprano Kirsten Flagstad was on hand to sing the difficult role of Leonore. For his libretto the bachelor Beethoven chose one that extolled marital love and devotion. To be near her husband imprisoned in a dungeon Leonore dresses as a boy, takes a job as the jailer's assistant. Dramatic scene comes when she helps dig her husband's grave, then outwits the tyrant who had plotted...
Philo Taylor Farnsworth, 30, failed ten years ago as a radio repairman. To George Everson, well-to-do San Francisco bachelor, he submitted his scheme for electronic television, no blueprints. When radio engineers assured Mr. Everson that the Farnsworth idea seemed feasible, he put up money for experiments, got addi tional backing from officials of San Fran cisco's Crocker First National Bank. Hard-working young Farnsworth twice threw equipment worth $25,000 out the window, started over again. Finally successful demonstrations were made at Phila delphia's Franklin Institute. Philco Radio &; Television Corp. bought U. S. rights...
Hand, who graduated magna cum laude, received both the A.M. degree and his Bachelor of Laws in 1894. He began practice in New York the next year, and joined the firm of Curtis, Mallet-Prevost, and Colt. Later he organized his own firm and practiced until 1914. In that year he was appointed a Judge of the United States District Court by President Wilson...
...named, Charles Ezra Beury graduated from Princeton in 1903. When he received a law degree from Harvard three years later it was in absentia because that day he was marrying the Lutheran pastor's daughter in his native Shamokin, Pa. His stock joke: "I became a bachelor and a benedict on the same...
Baroque, Ltd., swank London wholesalers, made a daring move by so timing their show of women's fashions that as the Bachelor King reached their display a seven-piece orchestra struck up Bach's Air For G-String, and a troupe of mannequins advanced in the formation known professionally as a "Pink Wedding Ensemble...