Word: conductive
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...debonair Consul General Captain Fritz Wiedemann and Dr. Johannes Borchers, German consul general in New York City, with an entourage of 14 people, had had to cancel their passage on a Japanese liner sailing two days before the President's deadline expired on July 15. The British safe conduct to Japan had arrived too late. Captain Wiedemann talked to Washington and Berlin. Then he chartered three planes, stowed his party and their luggage aboard, and sped eastward. Said the Captain as he peeled $100 bills off a fat bankroll, to pay baggage men: "Well have...
...stopped three hours on the way, resumed the journey by dawn. Before noon the 110th had pitched tents on Memphis airport, was waiting for the lightning to strike. It struck soon. To the airport came Ben Lear in person, read the riot act again-"disgrace to the Army . . . loose conduct and rowdyism . . . breach of discipline." Then he announced sentence. After a night's rest, the 110th would head home. And on the way every man in the outfit must march 15 miles...
Last week Benny Goodman, before departing for Chicago, attracted 10,000 people to Philadelphia's Robin Hood Dell for the concert José Iturbí refused to conduct (TIME, July 7). Clarinetist Goodman not only rippled through the Mozart concerto, with Edwin McArthur conducting, but he waved a stick-a pencil-over the Philadelphia Orchestra in the première of a Tango by Stravinsky. Drawled Benny later: "I felt kinda funny...
...from flesh spectacles, putting his aquacade profits behind a triangle play by Clifford Odets. ∙∙ Press-Agentry of the Week: In Hollywood Charlie McCarthy, honorary sergeant in the Air Corps, was ordered court-martialed for accepting a Marine appointment. In Portland, Ore., he was signed to guest-conduct the Portland Stadium Orchestra...
Most charitable explanation of Wodehouse's conduct came from his daughter in London. "I make no effort to defend my father," she said. "He is one of those guileless men who take people at their face value so long as they are pleasant. ... I know it is idiotic of him, but that's the sort of man he is. I wish I could stop...