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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bearded Conductor Ansermet, who had introduced and championed much of the music of his friend Igor Stravinsky, seemed to agree on some of it with an early Stravinsky critic, Claude Debussy, who had said to Ansermet years ago: "You know how much I admire Petrouchka, but The Rite of Spring disturbs me. It seems to me that Stravinsky is trying to make music out of something that is not music, just like the Germans . . . tried to make breakfasts out of sawdust...
...many a jungle-slogging G.I., Bridgeport Brass Co.'s DDT bug bomb was almost as good a friend as his rifle. When the war ended, the company dressed up its Aer-a-sol (DDT expelled by Freon gas) dispenser in civilian clothes, and struck a retail bonanza. Last week Bridgeport Brass thought it saw more pay dirt; it planned to apply the Aer-a-sol principle to dozens of other products...
...both Churchill and his new friend, Franklin Roosevelt, the issue was the same -to destroy Hitler. Churchill's task, beyond preparing to meet the onslaught of the Germans, was not, as he tells it, to win Roosevelt over, but to help and hurry him in winning the U.S. public over to their common view...
...most important coincidence, however, is that just a week before the event in Cuenca the matador faces a moment worse than any he has known in the bull ring: his mistress and his best friend are killed in an auto smashup after spending the weekend together. Matador Bello, knowing in his bones that both have betrayed him, feels uncontrollable fear for the first time. At the gate of the Cuenca bull ring, his mouth is dry, his palms...
...Much of / Wanted is a plodding recital of his rise from $18 to $45 a week (in six years) as a newsman, followed by success as a roving reporter for the Satevepost (1919-1937). In 1928, another champion of doggedness got him started writing novels. Advised his Maine friend & neighbor, Booth Tarkington: "Dig up the biggest blankbook you own and get going. Put down Arundel, page 1, Chapter 1,' on the first page, and keep right on working until you fall asleep...