Word: dying
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...than $460,000). Two years ago, pink and erect, Richard Strauss journeyed to London to earn some money conducting (he never had to yield to any man as a Mozart conductor). In London he told inquiring friends: "The last time I conduct." What were his plans? Said Strauss: "To die...
...shocked by conditions he saw in India: the opium dens of Calcutta, the wandering lepers crying "Baksheesh," the filth and poverty of the villages. "I learned that one meal a day was all the majority of the people could count on . . . In those villages it took no effort to die...
That Midnight Kiss (M-G-M). Producer Joe ("No one's going to get sick or die in my movies") Pasternak is an expert at turning out box-office musicals (Three Daring Daughters, In the Good Old Summertime). His favorite theme is the American dream that the tot on the living-room floor may one day turn out to be another Schnabel or Flagstad. In this case, the American living room is the usual Pasternak plush job, heavily furnished with grand pianos, helpful celebrities and enthusiastic prodigies...
Last week, Manhattan's little Lemonade Opera (TIME, Sept. 8, 1947 et seq.) gave Felix Mendelssohn's 120-year-old Die Heimkehr aus der Fremde (The Return from Abroad) a U.S. performance-but made no great impression with it. In fact, after three years of applauding the Lemonaders' fine selection of strange fruit, most listeners found Die Heimkehr (now titled The Stranger) a sorry piece of citrus indeed...
...picked out one big egg, Lustron Corp., and hatched it (TIME, Nov. 25, 1946 et seq.). Though RFC knew that Lustron's steel houses had only a fair chance of survival in the housing market, RFC kept on feeding Lustron millions because it knew that otherwise Lustron would die. In two years, Lustron swallowed up $35.5 million.* Last week RFC lent Lustron another $2,000,000 to keep the company going through September, and then asked Congress what to do about its ugly duckling...