Word: familiar
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sometimes Thomas' investigations are long and painstaking. In the case of his cover story on Toscanini (TIME, April 26, 1948), he had had two years in which to become intimately familiar with the great conductor's work. The National Broadcasting Company studios are just across the street from the TIME & LIFE building, and Thomas used to run over for Thursday afternoon rehearsals of Toscanini's NBC orchestra. There, in the control room, Thomas had a rare musician's-eye view of Toscanini at work and an unequaled chance to note his careful preparation, his humor...
Plump, apple-cheeked Gustave Marquot, who lives with his family 100 yards from the plant, spends two hours of his nine-hour day at his desk, the other seven talking to workers or watching them make glass. He and his employees use the familiar tu when speaking to one another, but there is no doubt who is boss. A TIME correspondent recently watched Marquot among his workers. Against the eerie background of a dozen gaping furnaces belching fire, men & women moved swiftly as fireflies carrying red-hot glass at the end of prongs, molding, blowing, cooling. There was not much...
...Sleeping Beauty, the Met's huge stage was turned into a fairyland of castles, caves and gardens. For three hours, through a prologue, three acts and a wedding (only the last part is familiar to most U.S. fans), audiences sat enthralled while Princess Aurora was christened, cursed by the wicked fairy, and put into the long sleep from which she is awakened by the prince's kiss. The third-act duet by Fonteyn, the princess, and Helpmann, the prince, never failed to stop the show. In Swan Lake, few fans had ever seen anything so magnificent as Margot...
Some time after 3 a.m., Bidault presented his government to President of the Republic Vincent Auriol. To tired, ailing M. Auriol, most of the faces were familiar. Socialist Jules Moch, who had tried unsuccessfully to form the new government, was again the Minister of Interior. The M.R.P.'s able, courageous Robert Schuman, an ex-Premier himself, had been retained as Foreign Minister. The Radicals' Henri Queuille, Premier of the previous government, was kept on as Vice Premier. The Peasant Party's Maurice Petsche remained as Minister of Finance. In all, ten members of the Queuille government...
...film has enough seamy passion, sordid heroism, and familiar props (a smoky nightclub like the one in Casablanca, repeated torch-singing of a Tin Pan Alley tune) to make it a caricature of a Bogart film. Wearing his old trench coat and mouthing a cigarette. Bogart returns to Tokyo after the war to start a small freight airline backed by a blank-faced racketeer (oldtime silent Cinemactor Sessue Hayakawa). By the time the comic-book plot has run its course, Bogart has saved his ex-wife (Florence Marly) from exposure as a Tokyo Rose, stopped the infiltration of war criminals...