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...recorded 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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Tchaikovsky in the Grove | 5/27/1946 | See Source »

...officially suspected of the murders of his common law wife Marion Miller, her two pet dogs, and of John ("Dingbat") O'Berta, Sam Malaga, Spot Butcher, George Meighan, William Dickman, James Quigley, Thaddeus Fancher, Frank Cochrane. Famed was his duel with gunmen in the German Deaconess Hospital while he lay with his leg in a cast...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Oct. 17, 1932 | 10/17/1932 | See Source »

...Capone friends and enemies would be absent when "The Big Fellow" returned to town. He might have seen them had he been released from jail a week earlier, for they were on hand (by special permission of the police) for gangland's latest, grandest funeral, that of John ("Dingbat") Oberta. Joe Saltis, retired beer chief, came down from his place at Saltisville, Wis.., to brag of the $100,000 he had invested there in a nine-hole golf course, a clubhouse "that sleeps 26 people." George ("Bugs") Moran, who lost seven of his north side hirelings in the St. Valentine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Coming Out Party | 3/24/1930 | See Source »

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