Word: finished
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Russian Composer Prokofiev that he fled the U.S., where he had been touring since 1918. For 18 months he hid out in the depths of Bavaria-to finish another opera...
...obvious to this handsome little devil in fact, that he is made of "finer clay," and he sets out to acquire a gleaming finish in the heat of events. As soon as he has choused his draft board with a neatly feigned epileptic fit, he lights out for Paris, where he hires out as elevator operator in a fashionable hotel. At about this time, his fingers stick to a lady's jewel case, and soon they are stroking the lady herself with such skill that she begs him to steal the rest of her valuables too. He obliges...
...Shoemaker tried to move up on the outside; each time Arcaro whacked his mount and pulled away, holding the inside track. Coming down the long (1,531 ft.) homestretch, Shoemaker finally used the whip, but Swaps had no more to give. Arcaro, furiously cross-whipping, drove Nashua across the finish line, ahead by a good 6½ lengths...
Selby's TV and newspaper work keep him going 13 hours a day. Once he gets to his typewriter, he can finish a column in around 15 minutes. The rest of the time he is busy on the phone, answering his mail, badgering his contacts and just plain digging for stories-as when he broke, in effect, the state's case against Virginia Carroll in the shooting of Politician William F. Meade (TIME, April 7, 1952). He is usually home in suburban Bryn Mawr by about 7 p.m. for his ceremonial "B and B" (Brahms and bourbon...
...Communist Party members and fellow travelers were legally gathered to review the new party program. Some in the audience were already beginning to drowse under the somniferous spell of Marxist platitudes when the chairman of the meeting suddenly barked: "We have an important announcement to make . . ." Before he could finish it, three men in light grey summer suits, Panama hats in hand, walked briskly down the aisle toward the rostrum. The crowd recognized Sanzo Nozaka, who is Japan's No. 1 Communist since the death of Kyuichi Tokuda (TIME, Aug. 8), and two of his henchmen. Looking like...