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Maggie had put on her Faust with a lot of confidence. One old friend, Violinist Fritz Kreisler, told her, "You have put the pearls on a string." Most listeners found that they enjoyed the old pearls from Gounod's score more than they appreciated the new string-Poet Spender's often banal narration. But everyone agreed it was a bang-up show. Producer Maggie, who at 61 vows each year of singing on the concert stage will be her last, was happily thinking about taking her Faust on tour...
...trying to get Washington into the U.S. "Now," he said, "I'm sending the U.S. to Washington." McCormick, who has no children, was turning over the Times-Herald to his favorite niece and crown princess of Chicagoland, 28-year-old Ruth Elizabeth McCormick Miller. Bertie could hardly have found anyone more American or more Midwestern than "Bazy" Miller, who is the granddaughter of President-Maker (and U.S. Senator) Mark Hanna, the daughter of Senator Medill McCormick and Representative Ruth Hanna McCormick Simms...
...Bazy and Peter bought two small Illinois dailies in Peru and nearby La Salle. When Bazy found that they had the same readers and that she was competing with herself, she merged them into the profitable La Salle News-Tribune (circ. 15,674). Peter kept an eye on the business side because, says Bazy, "I never come closer than three zeros on any figures." She ran the nine-man editorial staff and wrote a daily column of chitchat about her two children, her 14-room house, her favorite philanthropies and her blooded Arabian horses. Says Bazy: "You meet...
Thompson went to LIFE in October 1937. In 1942 he joined the Army as an armored force captain, was transferred to the Air Force to found and edit Impact, a LiFE-like confidential air intelligence magazine. He wound up in 1944 as a lieutenant colonel in charge of German air force intelligence at SHAEF, was awarded the Legion of Merit and the Order of the British Empire...
...Lewis Gannett asked: "Is this the book that launched a thousand quips, and stirred the orators to deliriums of denunciation? Main Street doesn't read like a crusading book today. Maybe it never was as much'a crusading book as some of its readers assumed." Francis Hackett found Ernest Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms has been made "trite" by time and another war. Hackett's conclusion, which would call many Hemingway fans to arms: "[This] lyrical novel, for all its excellences, shows how sterile the primitive protest really...