Word: blues
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Margaret herself plainly believes none of it. As a younger girl she may often have longed to call less cynical attention to her large, soft blue eyes and to kick up her heels in freer fashion. As a princess, she can only mock, strictly among friends, and make the best of it. "After all," as one flag-waver remarked while welcoming Margaret to Capri last month, "a king's daughter is still a king's daughter...
...Secretariat, a 39-story office skyscraper towering above the long low assembly building, looked more like an ice-cream sandwich. Its north and south walls were the ice cream-solid bands of marble. The east and west walls were corrugated expanses of blue-green glass. Each wall consisted of 2,700 windows held by a tracery of aluminum. Their effect, said the FORUM, would be that of "a mosaic reflecting the sky from a thousand facets...
Some of the music by Americans, like Frederick Woltmann's Songs from a Chinese Lute and Bainbridge Crist's Oriental Nocturne, sounded fine but had little to do with America. But Robert Ward's Gershwinesque, midnight-blue Night Music and Ray Green's jiggy, jazzy, folk-flavored Three Pieces for a Concert were true Americana. Most impressive was Bales's own Episodes from a Lincoln Ballet, a dramatic descriptive work which carried Lincoln through his "Youth and Dreams," to "The Presidency" and "Fame Everlasting...
...most imperturbable man on the squad. Although he makes $40,000 a year, Henrich is careful how he spends it, wears store suits and shirts (DiMaggio was always "a custom-made guy"). Henrich never volunteers advice to another Yankee, but when players come to him for help his blue eyes light up. Says one mate: "He's the kind of guy, you give him a watch and he'll take it apart and put it back together, and then write the watchmaker telling him what's wrong with...
...P.G.A. final last week, Sam was hugely enjoying his new eminence as current king of the links. The car bringing him to the Celebrities Tournament at Washington's Army-Navy Country Club was duly escorted by motorcycle cops. As he changed into working clothes (electric blue slacks and yellow T-shirt), a fellow competitor, General Omar Bradley, came over to shake hands. "I've been reading a lot about you," grinned the general...