Word: bigger
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...Orleans, which is still run by his enemy, Reform Mayor "Chep" Morrison, has already felt his displeasure. By giving the state a bigger share of the city's income (sales tax, cigarette tax, revenue from horse racing), Earl's legislature has cut $3,000,000 of New Orleans revenue. It has ordered the city to readopt the aldermanic form of government (which New Orleans abandoned by referendum in 1912), thus robbing the mayor of almost all power...
...half the scenery and instruments on opening night, and once during the depression. Both times the backers were paid back within two years. One big reason is that their summer opera has become a family habit for St. Louisans-from grandma to the kids. Another reason-and perhaps a bigger one-is the quality of its performances. Even a foreign critic from Dallas recently admitted that St. Louis' Municipal Opera is to summer operetta companies "what the Metropolitan is to grand opera." Unlike the Met, however, the Muny has no deficit...
Last November, with help from the therapists and a Detroit Conservatory professor, Ernest started something bigger. Last week at the Michigan State fair grounds he heard the Detroit Symphony Orchestra play excerpts from his first symphony, to an audience of 10,000. The music was pretty murky in spots, and full of borrowings from Tchaikovsky. Said Conductor Valter Poole, "It interested me as psychiatry, not as music." But the audience gave Ernest an ovation. Said he in a bashful curtain speech: "Ladies and gentlemen, I enjoyed the playing of the symphony . . . Have confidence in mental hospitals-it did me good...
Eleven years ago, Hackett, then a young (22) guitarist in Joe Marsala's band, dropped in at Nick's old beer-and-sawdust joint, played some self-taught cornet and was hired on the spot to lead the band in a bigger place that Nick was starting. On opening night, the thin, bashful kid from Providence found himself giving the downbeat to such hot-jazz bigwigs as Trombonist Georg Brunis, Clarinetist Pee Wee Russell, Guitarist Eddie Condon and powerhouse Negro Drummer Zutty Singleton. In the cult-ridden, vociferous world of hot jazz, Hackett became an overnight sensation. Erudite...
Last week the Times crossed him up by one day. What the mother paper did on Monday was to blossom out in a new look, with new typography, bigger departments of opinion and women's news, and a green-colored sports section. But Tuesday noon, Publisher Norman Chandler called staffers to his fifth-floor auditorium, solemnly told them: "The news is too exciting to be withheld from you any longer . . . The Times is to sponsor a new newspaper. It will appear in the fall . . . and will be housed in our new annex. If anybody asks you about this, tell...