Word: caesar
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Shortly before 5, an hour & a half late, a stumpy little figure in dove grey hat and black overcoat came through the frosted glass doors from the street. Flanked by his lawyer and RCA's David Sarnoff, J. Caesar Petrillo, boss of the union musicians, had arrived...
...Approved his Inaugural Committee's selection of Music Czar James Caesar Petrillo to put together and direct a mammoth three-hour Inaugural Eve show in Washington featuring movie, stage and radio stars, bands, opera singers and a symphony orchestra...
...voices of Caesar and Napoleon, of Genghis Khan, George Washington and Pontius Pilate were never heard by posterity. But the voices of the captains, kings, heroes and villains of the recent past are on record and can be heard as long as the records last. The latest collection,* in an album of five Columbia records called I Can Hear It Now . . . , contains excerpts from famous broadcasts...
Europe, vacationing on private islands in Minnesota lakes and sailing the inland waterways aboard their own yachts. All they have to do is to be ready when the time comes to answer some such question as: "How old was Julius Caesar when he married the daughter of Lucius Cinna?" (Answer...
...when De Sabata limped to the podium (he has a game leg), bowed to the audience, then returned to the orchestra, he reminded some in the audience of his master. De Sabata, who is 56, is 25 years younger and considerably taller than Toscanini, with a face like a Caesar. But from the rear, he has the same pink, bald scalp ringed with white...