Word: bores
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...half to a clean young stranger, Joel McCrea. When Jean's stuffy Government boss takes her out to dinner, Coburn & McCrea sardine themselves into a dismal nightclub only to find that it is the scene of their landlady's tedious date. Coburn draws off the Government bore while McCrea gets to work with the romance...
Last week these preparations bore fruit. Four times within a week the Japanese undertook a raid with nearly 100 planes: against shipping in the Solomons (TIME, April 19), in Oro Bay and Milne Bay on New Guinea, and against the docks and ground installations at Port Moresby. Allied forces claimed they had shot down 121 planes in these four raids, but the raiders too did some damage. Allied planes also sank two ships out of a convoy of nine which probably succeeded in putting supplies ashore at Wewak...
Last week the U-boats' return to the American seaboard was announced. Atlantic skippers told of twelve-hour running fights. Now Doenitz sent his raiders hunting in multiple packs. His U-boats attacked in waves-first to disrupt escorts, then to bore in among the helpless merchantmen for the kill. To supplement the work of the U-boats was a still-powerful German surface fleet, reportedly moved from Norway fjords, possibly operating again against Atlantic convoys...
Most gifted of this trio was Carl Philipp Emanuel (1714-88), whose fame long outshone his father's. For 27 years C. P. E. had the politically impressive but musically dubious honor of accompanying Frederick the Great while he bore down on the flute. Frederick played a repertory of some 300 concertos in relentless rotation, nearly wore his accompanist out. When the Seven Years' War began, C. P. E. got temporary relief...
...frayed and yellow manuscripts were written in a beautiful 18th-Century hand, and each bore the name of Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach. Koldofsky bought the manuscripts and started a six-year search through musical libraries. He found that the manuscripts were not in C. P. E.'s own handwriting. Seven turned out to be copies of concertos by C. P. E. already listed or known to exist in European collections. The other seven, so far as Koldofsky has been able to discover, are new to the musical world. Since all the scripts are in the same handwriting...