Word: barbering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...dogs at a Carnegie Hall pop concert. Next month, Menotti will sail for Europe to visit Milan, his home town, and do research in Paris for a ballet about Marcel Proust. He lives at Mt. Kisco, N.Y. in a glistening glass and wood house called "Capricorn," with Symphonist Samuel Barber, an aspiring poet named Robert Horan, and a female cocker spaniel. The cocker, Menotti says, "is very musical and neurotic like all of us in the house." The dog has a preference for the works of Ravel and Debussy...
...deserted valley, decided to bet a chunk of solid cash on a new future. Spurred on by civic leader Ralph E. Weeks, president of world-famous International Correspondence Schools, they formed a corporation (The Scranton Plan Inc.), wrote a campaign song (Buy Scranton Bonds), and, on street corners, in barber shops and bars, at luncheons and rallies, began collecting $100 pledges...
Everybody in Lynd, Minn. (pop. 218) wanted to see the Lynd High boys play in the state basketball finals at Minneapolis. But some had to stay home to do the chores. A. H. Roloff, the postmaster, took over the telephone exchange from Ole Larson, the town barber. At 9:30 one night last week, Roloff got good news to relay to the 18 other stay-at-homes: Lynd had won the first game...
...high-ceilinged lobby was almost bare; there was now a bar and a barber shop (but no hot water). There was dancing every night in what had been the "Fiesta Pavilion," now roofed by makeshift sheets of galvanized iron. Bright decorations hid fire-blackened walls. The furniture was rickety, the silverware a jumble of designs-anything that could be borrowed. But Manila again had its galas. The "Grand Hotel" was now a symbol of hopeful days ahead: the Government hoped to have it spick & span, newly furnished by July 4, the day set for Philippine independence...
...swoon sweepstakes, a new favorite has risen fast. Handsome Perry Como, 32, an ex-barber, last week finished second in Billboard Magazine's annual poll of 324 radio editors. (The winner, for the eighth year in a row, was Bing Crosby.) Como had climbed ahead of Dick Haymes and Frank Sinatra...