Word: cats
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Come, come, TIME. . . . That particular bit of orchestration cost me four nights of sleep. If you name the author of the text, couldn't you also name the composer, so that my friends and enemies will know where to throw the posies or a dead cat...
Artificial Inspiration. In Chicago, Benjamin Bauer thought he saw a big white cat drowning in Lake. Michigan, jumped in to rescue it, yelled for help, explained after his own rescue that he had forgotten he couldn't swim, was arrested for disorderly conduct...
Uncontrolled. In Phoenix, Ariz., Richard Sirmer hurled a bottle of lighter fluid at an annoying cat, tossed his flaming lighter after it, burned up the cat, burned down the house...
...Nutcracker Suite (an album of eight sides), Serenade for Strings and the theme of the Sixth ("Pathétique") Symphony, titled Now and Forever, with lyrics ("So it was fated, two hearts are mated . . ."*). He also recorded Grieg and Rachmaninoff piano concertos and last week did Dingbat, the Singing Cat, a dance perversion of Prokofiev's Peter and the Wolf. Says Freddy admiringly: "Tchaikovsky is the most commercial of all the classic writers." Martin believes there should be some honor among thieves of classical themes, and thinks it is good of him that he still usually mentions the original...
Cruising was written by stout, spinsterish Eily Beadel (who calls herself "officially 48"), a retired music-hall accordionist, and her chum, greying, triple-chinned Nellie ("Tolly") Tollerton, a onetime actress of the silent films. Eily lives with her twelve-year-old cat, "Spot," in Hammersmith, and Tolly Tollerton lives with her husband, who is a Swedish foot juggler...