Word: basil
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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President Basil O'Connor of the Foundation, joining with President Conant in the announcement, stated that attempts would be made to determine objectively the nature and characteristics of different types of respiratory involvement and to develop new techniques for administering oxygen to stricken children...
...past 21 years Fulham's bishop has been big, hearty Rt. Rev. Basil Batty, who found the job "hard work, but very pleasant." Lately, however, the going has been tough. In a plane from Moscow recently he found the stratosphere too much for his 74 years and resigned in favor of 67-year-old Youngster Selwyn, an ex-chaplain...
...swarms of eager young musicians whose war-stunted careers are blossoming out all over England cannot adequately fill the ranks of the nine symphony orchestras in London. Without including the minor ones, there are three first rate orchestras. The B.B.C., alternately under the direction of Sir Adrian Boult and Basil Cameron, is probably the best, giving regular weekly concerts and, during winter and summer seasons, nightly promenade concerts in a 10,000 seat monstrosity called the Royal Albert Hall. The London Symphony, under Malcolm Sargent, also performs once a week at the Albert; while the London Philharmonic since its fight...
Theatre Guild on the Air (Sun. 10 p.m., ABC). Ibsen's A Doll's House, with Dorothy McGuire, Basil Rathbone...
Besides discs of Shakespeare and other masters, read by such experts as Basil Rathbone, the record section also contains the complete albums of American Folk Songs made by the Library of Congress in 1942 and edited by Alan Lomax. With Professor Smith's permission, interested students may even hear recordings of James Joyce himself, reading from "Finnegan's Wake...