Word: benches
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Soprano Flagstad and gusty, barrel-built Danish Heldentenor Lauritz Melchior. Almost always the pair sold out the house with their hefty love-making in Tristan and Isolde, their caroling and ho-yo-to-ho-ing in the Ring operas. Ordinarily there would be on the Met's Wagnerian bench two sopranos who could take Flagstad's place as Melchior's teammate. But last week it appeared that neither of these would be fully available...
Administrator. Henry Stimson has during his year in office himself picked the three men who are his chief civilian aides. One of them is earnest Robert Porter Patterson, onetime overseas infantry officer and D.S.C.-man, who left the Federal appellate bench to become Under Secretary, the Secretary's right-hand man, who also handles Army buying. Another is Robert Abercrombie Lovett, wartime naval aviator, Assistant Secretary of War for Air who watches out for The Air Forces. The third is John Jay McCloy, Manhattan lawyer and A.E.F. artillery captain, who supervises Lend-Lease, Army publicity, personnel and many...
After a year of bench-warming, some of the U.S.'s star architects were finally at work last week on defense housing. In Pittsburgh's suburb of New Kensington, not far from Aluminum Co. of America's sprawling plant, builders got started on a set of emergency houses designed by famed Architect Walter Gropius of Harvard and his co-Bauhäusler Marcel Breuer. They differed as much from the first crop of Government houses for defense workers as a Frank Lloyd Wright design does from a suburban contractor...
...phase of Governor Edison's adroit assault. Edison is well aware that a large part of Hague's power lies in control of New Jersey judges. The Governor showed his hand, a week after he took office, by appointing Republican Frederic R. Colie to the Supreme Bench. Hague's reaction: an hour of abuse and threats screamed into the Governor's ear by telephone from the Boss's winter den on Biscayne...
...friendship for 30 years, and I have never found him touched by the conceit you say characterizes him. Not that that is a sin; it is usually a mark of self-faith. Besides, if your charge were true, how would it affect his usefulness on the Supreme Bench, of which, you admit, he is its deepest scholar ? ... HERBERT BAYARD SWOPE