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...last U.S. recital of the season, in Town Hall. One of the highest notes of the. program was an A flat in Henri Duparc's Phidylé. Redheaded, little (5-ft.) Maggie Teyte opened her mouth wide to sing it fortissimo but not even the faintest pianissimo came out. At the end of the piece, the audience bravoed noisily. Maggie Teyte seemed to feel that some of the applause was more kindly than genuine. She turned to her accompanist, snapped a "To hell with them" and signaled for the piano to take the last ten measures again...
...swirling fog held London in a clammy clasp last week, muffling its powerful pulsebeat to a mere mark-time. The air tasted vaguely sulphurous and had the faintest odor of wet ashes...
Ezra Pound, Idaho-born expatriate poet, scholar and cantankerous crackpot, opponent of "the God-damned system that makes one war after another," arrived in Washington to be tried for treason (pro-Axis broadcasts from Italy). "Does anyone have the faintest idea what I actually said in Rome?" he asked. "Get over the idea that I betrayed anybody...
...tough, 35-year-old radio engineer. He had learned communications well in seven years with Telefunken, German radio corporation in Peru. He had been interned in Texas, after arrest by Peruvian authorities in 1942, had stayed long enough to pick up U.S. colloquialisms, and spoke English with only the faintest of accents. Repatriated, he had been tried and proved as a courier between Berlin and Madrid. Then he was accepted for more dangerous duty...
...Your story "Mahout" [TIME, Feb. 14] infuriated me. . . . I mean no reflection on TIME'S reporting of the facts-for facts they are-but rather an anger at the inference . . . that the average American is confused and hasn't the faintest idea of what he wants in a new national Administration. That is not true...