Word: besse
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Dearest Mom: So old Bess has pups again. . . . She had her last litter two years ago - just about this time of year -when everything was so fresh...
...German burp-gun got on me and I ducked in a ditch and set off a Teller mine, and a Tiger tank ran right over my ditch, and a squad of Boche infantry started heaving fragmentation grenades at me and I got to thinking, Mom, of old Bess and her about to have pups again, and Mom, we can't have them pups born into a world that ain't free and bright, can we, even if it's the way you said old Bess got out that night and was bred by that mongrel next door...
...conducts with his back to the band, he frankly describes his abilities as "brilliant." "I have always been one of those spectacular musicians," says he. Band- master Rolfe soothes his audiences with such items as Overture to the Viking, scenes from Babes in Toyland, selections from Porgy and Bess. His theory: "Give 'em what they want...
...Greenfield got his start 27 years ago in a $5-a-week selling job for a shopkeeper friend of his mother's. Three years later he opened his own shop with his sister (the "Bess" of Bes-Ben, now married and out of the business). Two years after that he had gone from one employe and a $35 rent bill...
...Harvard-Radcliffe orchestra, directed by George Brown, gave a program that leaned heavily on the Mozart side, but which featured such lighter touches as selections from Gershwin's "Porgy and Bess" and from the Debussy "Petite Suite...