Word: confidental
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Tammany's cigar-mouthing regulars had been confident that they could capture New York's City Hall just by looking pious and letting nature take its course. Their blueprint for victory was simplicity itself. A disciplined Tammany hand named Vincent Impellitteri, who became temporary mayor after Bill O...
Conductor Beecham's crooning modesty did not come from any qualms about the quality of his orchestra. As orchestras go, his Royal Philharmonic is almost brand-new (though the Royal Philharmonic Society, which sponsors it, can boast that it commissioned a tenth symphony from Beethoven, which he never lived...
Generals & Sinners. In August 1939, Pundit Kaltenborn confesses, he made a prize boner. Asked if he thought war would come soon, he said in clipped, confident tones: "The odds are still seven to five in favor of more appeasement." Two days later, "Hitler's blitzkrieg roared across the Polish...
The critics were still wrangling at the top of their voices over Ernest Hemingway. His Across the River and into the Trees (deftly parodied by E. B. White in The New Yorker as Across the Street and into the Grill) had strong popular support; it stood firmly at the top...
On the West Coast, the biggest radio & television manufacturer is Los Angeles' upstart Hoffman Radio Corp. Its boss is handsome, white-haired H. Leslie Hoffman, 44, a supremely confident salesman who has more than tripled his gross (from $3,525,396 to $11,987,650) in two years. In...