Word: ear
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...time, cigar-smoking (box-a-day) McArthur studied orchestra scores, practiced waving a stick before a mirror. An ear-splitting singer, he made his wife, his onetime singing pupil Blanche Victoria Pope, his stand-in vocalist in his studies. Flagstad plugged him as a conductor (TIME, Feb. 5, 1940). The San Francisco and Chicago operas hired Conductor McArthur; last year the Met unbent and let him do a Tristan in a post-season visiting performance in Boston. But not until last week did the Met let him play in its own back yard. Critics gave Edwin McArthur top marks...
...with a guitar. His specialty is Midwestern songs. The foot-tapping Golden Gate Quartet (TIME, Jan. 27), who went to Washington by taxi ($100 round trip), sang Noah and Things Are Gonna Come My Way. Negro Joshua White, who sings at rehearsals with a lighted cigaret behind his ear, sang John Henry, Man Goin' Roun' Takin' Names...
...cent of the applicants pass the thorough physical exam which requires perfect eyesight, 64 to 74 inches of height, a good physique, and at least "12 natural, opposing teeth." Lacking in the exam are the old-time tricks such as firing a pistol next to one's ear...
...government is turning its eyes away from the European situation just long enough to give an ear to the sad state of network music this side of the Monroe Doctrine boundary line. Congressmen don't even need the help of Dr. Gallup to sense that Jeanie's light brown hair has turned gray in the last two months, and Old Black Joe has long been a member of the angelic choir. Just to make sure he stays there, the government has decided to start a criminal anti-trust suit against ASCAP, but those who think that this may mean tuneful...
...Indian Owner Alva Bradley, Bob Feller is an excellent investment. On days when Feller is scheduled to pitch, ballpark attendance swells 50% to 200%. Last week, when Robert William Andrew Feller signed his contract for the coming season, Owner Bradley grinned from ear to ear. "You can safely say," he told newshawks, "that Feller's salary is the highest that has ever been paid a pitcher." Sportswriters, well aware that Lefty Grove's 1931 salary of $27,500 was baseball's all-time pitching high, promptly set Feller's salary...