Word: flatting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Omar Bradley, head of the Veterans Administration. That sounded O.K. to almost everybody: Ike would be free to go into business (or, perhaps, politics) and General Bradley, after getting VA on the right track, would have greater scope for his great talents. What was even better news was the flat statement of a presidential confidant that General Bradley's successor would not be-as the rumormongers had it-the President's blundering military aide, Major General Harry Vaughan...
...Symphony (Sun. 5 p.m., NBC). Mozart's overture to The Magic Flute, Divertimento in B-Flat for Strings and Two Horns, "Haffner" Symphony in D Major. Conductor: Arturo Toscanini...
...started out fishing for smelts in a borrowed rowboat, was master of a big salmon boat, a purse seiner, within six years. In bloody battles, Big Nick (6 ft. 2 in., 226 Ibs.) led other purse seiners against the beach seiners (who use horses to drag flat nets up on shore), drove most of them out of the $59-million-a-year Alaska salmon industry...
First score of the year against the Boston boys came in the second period when Jim Kenary's tantalizing shovel passes, climaxed with a long flip to Bob Forsyth, advanced the ball to the Jayvee one. After two unsuccessful line bucks, Kenary tossed to Don Trimble in the flat for six points. Kenary's try for the conversion was wide...
...York Philharmonic (Sun. 3 p.m., CBS). Sibelius' Symphony No. 5 in E-Flat Major, Mozart's Piano Concerto in C Major. Conductor: Artur Rodzinski. Soloist: Pianist Wanda Landowska...