Word: famed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Francke had gotten together enough money for the present building, most of it given by Adolphus Busch, of brewery fame. The work was completed just about the time the U. S. entered the war, but anti-German feeling was so strong that the building did not open until 1921. Rumors circulated in Cambridge that the Museum was a German spy center; other reports asserted that the building's concrete foundations had been especially designed as an enemy gun emplacement...
...their hands with an air of pity." Bitter and hurt, he left his native land and went to Paris. There he soon found kinder friends, produced the brooding, mystical plays and essays (Les Aveugles, Pelléas et Mélisande, The Life of the Bee) which made his fame worldwide. Critics praised him. He won the Nobel Prize...
...Fame and money (about $10,000 this year) haven't made much difference in Campy's style of living. With his wife Ruthe and four children (two of them girls) he lives in a white clapboard house in St. Albans, Queens, goes in for big plates of Ruthe's spaghetti, gets to bed most nights by 10 p.m. and is up by 6 a.m.: "In my house," he says, "you got to keep regular hours. The baby, Roy Jr., he's up by then and hittin' the bottle...
Gounod: Faust (Georges Nore, tenor; Roger Rico, bass; Geori-Boue, soprano, and others; the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and Chorus, Sir Thomas Beecham conducting; Victor, 32 sides). Faust, with its razzle-dazzle choruses and radiant arias, brought instant fame 90 years ago to French Composer Gounod; this performance adds to Beecham's. Recording: good...
Mordecal Peter (Three Finger) Brown and Charles A. (Kid) Nichels, two great Pitchers of the past, today joined 56 other baseball immortals in the game's Hall of Fame at Cooperstown, N. Y. AMERICAN LEAGUE NATIONAL LEAGUE Boston 10 (Johnson), St. Louis 6 Pittsburgh 3 (Chambers), Boston 3 Boston 4(Hughson), St. Louis 3 Pittsburgh 11 (Carey), Boston 3 New York 12 (Byrne), Detroit 0 New York 10 (Jansen), Chicago 1 Washington 7 (Searb'r'ugh), Cleveland 3 Brooklyn 3 (Minner), St. Louis 7 Washington 2 (Hudson), Cleveland 0 Cincinnati 14 (Ruffensberger), Philadelphia 3 (McCahan), Chicago 2 Philadelphia 7 Chicago...