Word: di
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Igor has adopted Maury Paul's tried & true formulas: no drinking on the job; plenty of references to favorite people (like Pat Di Cicco and the Plaza Hotel's Colonel Serge Obolensky); a few good feuds, a generous salting of his copy with such phrases-some of them borrowed from other chefs-as snobility, cafelegant, upperclawss, Longuyland, the Rarefied Set. He also leased an apartment on Manhattan's upper East Side (Maury Paul said a good address made all the difference). And one thing more: "I think it is very important," he said, "not to develop...
...Abbott announced that what was planned to supplement a Navy of 10,000 men, an Air Force of 15-20,000, was a well-equipped Army of at least 20-25,000 men (prewar strength of Army: 4,000). To this regular establishment the Dominion would add six territorial di visions in part-time service...
...inventor is Hollywood's versatile Ulrich L. ("Doc") Di Ghilini, professional magician, exposer of spiritualistic fakes and amateur art collector (TIME, Oct. 14, 1940). After five years of experiments, in his garage and (after the neighbors complained) in a Beverly Hills furniture store, Di Ghilini developed a recording machine which embosses (presses) a sound groove in a disc instead of cutting it, which is the accepted current method. His embossing system makes it possible to run a record at much slower speed than on the usual phonograph...
...Di Ghilini has yet to prove that his records can compete in tone quality with the best recordings on wax. But he thinks that, as a home recorder or as a commercial dictograph, his machine will have no trouble competing with the wire recorder and tape recorder...
...TIME'S Pony Edition [June 4] I read a letter saying that the gentlemen of the U.S.A.A.F. are very much concerned with the marriage of Gloria Yanderbilt di Cicco to Leopold Stokowski...