Word: bowle
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Brahms: Violin Concerto in D Major (Joseph Szigeti and the Philadelphia Orchestra, Eugene Ormandy conducting; Columbia, 9 sides); Symphony No. 1 in C Minor (Hollywood Bowl Symphony Orchestra, Leopold Stokowski conducting; Victor, 10 sides). Szigeti plays Brahms's bombastic music straight, while Conductor Stokowski plays it pretentiously. Szigeti's concerto is a better performance, but Stokowski's symphony is more clearly recorded on unbreakable vinylite...
Bernard Cardinal Griffin, Archbishop of Westminster, flew into New York for a fortnight's U.S. visit, was greeted by i) Francis Cardinal Spellman, 2) newsmen, who goggled at the visitor's British version (bowl-on-a-platter-style) Roman hat. Cardinal Spellman brightly declared that he would buy Cardinal Griffin a new one, U.S. style, later informed the press: "The matter has already been taken care...
With a little careful pruning in the first of the two acts, and a general improvement in timing, "Around the World" might bowl its audience over. At this point spectacle cannot make up for empty lines and contrived situations...
During Von KleinSmid's era, U.S.C. had a crack football team which made the Rose Bowl nine times, a campus which expanded from five acres to 50, and a plant which grew from three to 22 buildings, costing $16 million. Said the committee tartly: "The university's future ... is more dependent upon the dignity, respect and morale of its faculty than it is upon buildings. . . ." The U.S.C. trustees would see what could be done...
...Loadings. One answer to Europe's and Asia's emergency lay with U.S. grain farmers, who have about 365,000,000 bushels of wheat stored in their bins. Last week, as a rumor spread through the Midwest grain bowl that ceiling prices might be pushed higher, farmers took a firmer grip on their supplies instead of hauling them to market. Receipts of grains at Midwest terminals were down to a trickle. Great Lakes steamers, making their first 1946 runs to Duluth, Superior and Port Arthur, found scant cargoes at the cavernous elevators...