Word: cards
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...notable and unadvertised rendition of the bird part in Prokofiev's Peter and the Wolf. "He did not strike a single false note," said Washington Evening Star Critic Alice Eversman. "If he could only read the scores-" sighed one of the musicians. But trouble lurked: Melody carries no card in Petrillo's Musicians' Union...
...that failed? After needling Morrison for failure to produce any domestic plan to meet the crisis, young Tory David Eccles buttonholed Morrison in a House of Commons lobby. "Haven't you got any card up your sleeve?" he asked anxiously. Morrison shook his head sadly and replied, "Have...
...Card. Another possible drain on "Loan" dollars begins this week as Britain becomes obliged to convert into dollars some of the sterling credits held by foreigners (TIME, June...
Adhemar is part democrat and part demagogue, part do-gooder and part spellbinder. There is something about him that suggests Franklin Roosevelt-also Huey Long and Fiorello LaGuardia. He was once a card-carrying member of the Communist Party, but now disclaims any allegiance...
...near Dallas, he likes to give big parties in a bar whose walls are sheathed in gleaming tarpon scales. Murchison takes off his tie, rolls up his sleeves, and invites his guests to do likewise. He keeps a six-seater converted C-47 (complete with bar, three couches and card table) to whisk him back & forth from his 120,000-acre Mexican ranch, where he goes to hunt and fish. And his way of announcing his arrival at home is to bellow to his houseman: "Start the juleps rolling...