Word: begun
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Broadway had begun to wonder when Cole Porter's next smash was coming; Kiss Me, Kate marks an interval of five years and two flops since his last hit show (Mexican Hayride). In the barren interval he also had to endure a film biography, Night and Day, of which he said: "It ought to be good because none of it is true...
...hour after he got to Riviera, he sprayed balls from the practice tee-first with the No. 9 iron, then the No. 8 and on up the ladder to the woods. He considered the wind and terrain even in practice, controlled every shot as if the tournament had begun. He has a horror of what he calls the Sunday golfer's gravest sin: "Just hitting the ball without thinking." Like cigar-chomping Walter J. Travis, golf's hero of half a century ago, Hogan likes to say that he never hits a careless shot...
Shostakovich, in his music for the Young Guard (TIME, Oct. 25), and Aram Khachaturian, in his score for a film on Lenin, had managed to "reorganize" themselves. Other composers had begun "to rebuild their work," although "the process of their reconstruction proceeds slowly." But Prokofiev's work still smelled of the "marazm [wasting away] of bourgeois culture." Said Khrennikov: Prokofiev obviously had not "drawn the necessary conclusions from the decree of the Central Committee...
Harvard's photographic "observatories on wheels," the first of their kind, have begun to pay off with new scientific theories described yesterday by Associate Professor Fred L. Whipple of the College Observatory...
...Britain, television is older (regular telecasts were begun in 1936, abandoned during the war), smaller and-in some fields of programming-better than in the U.S. With only one TV station and some 85,000 sets, Britain is momentarily hamstrung by a shortage of the special glass needed for cathode tubes. British TV carries no advertisements and is dependent for revenue on government subsidies and an annual tax of ?2 on each set owner. Among the programs scheduled are Ascot races, plays such as King Lear (which ran over three hours and was given in two sections on consecutive evenings...