Word: bedded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last Monday Critic Lawrence Oilman had the sniffles. Reading Donald Tovey's recondite Essays in Musical Analysis, he came across a sentence which made him hop out of bed and call up NBC's Musical Commentator Samuel Chotzinoff. Did Mr. Toscanini know that Wagner's original prelude to the third act of Tannhauser, which got only one performance (at the opera's world premiere, 1845), was much longer than the one usually played? Arturo Toscanini, who has a memory like a telephoto camera, could remember having seen some such score. On Tuesday a phone call...
Arising pale but well from his bed of flu, Franklin Roosevelt last week headed south for his first vacation since Thanksgiving. His favorite cruiser Houston awaited him off Key West to take him out to the navy's game of defending the Panama Canal (TIME, Feb. 20). The Presidential fishing rods were already on the Houston. Lest citizens suppose he was a frivolous President, Mr. Roosevelt packed into his last two days ashore several statements calculated to keep the country thinking well...
...names, none of them a standout, were in the air. Then something happened: a journalist friend recollected that extremely able Chairman William Orville Douglas of the SEC, 40, was born in Minnesota, lived in the State of Washington from 1904 to 1922, hence is a Westerner. From his hospital bed in Baltimore, where he was recuperating from an appendectomy and faithfully hatching out some hen's eggs (TIME, Feb. 13), Janizary Thomas ("The Cork") Corcoran applauded. Mr. Douglas was called to the White House. When the President left town without making any appointments, the Douglas trial-balloon was still...
...Mignon brand Egyptian cigarets, which he imports from a Manhattan tobacconist, and reading books on history, philosophy and politics. From 5 to 8:30 he plays the piano, then dines and spends the evening in the nightly ritual of a bridge game. At 10:30 he shuffles off to bed...
...just flew back from Hollywood; flying is just like dancing; the plane stopped three times and each time it stopped. I would wake up to listen to it go whoooosh when it took off. Then it got very bumpy, and I almost got thrown out of bed," she concluded...