Word: gabriels
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Frail, white-haired composer Gabriel Fauré, director of the Paris Conservatory, listened thoughtfully. A 14-year-old student was playing a set of piano variations. The recital over, Director Fauré awarded the Conservatory's first piano prize to the fair-haired boy, saying in a voice so soft it could hardly be heard: "This youngster . . . has true musicality . . . he will go far." That...
...networks will hurry their top-ranking regulars (some now at foreign posts) to the San Francisco mikes: NBC's H. V. Kaltenborn, Robert St. John; CBS's Bob Trout, Major George Fielding Eliot, William Shirer, Eric Sevareid; Mutual's Fulton Lewis Jr., Gabriel Heatter, Upton Close; Blue's "Principal Interpreter" Ray mond Gram Swing, Walter Winchell, Vincent Sheean, Drew Pearson...
...flower wholesalers on Los Angeles' Wall Street, opened a retail shop nearby. Then he hustled west to Wilshire Boulevard's breezy shopping district to unveil a retail salon (Hollywood for shop). Next he bought 28,000 square feet of greenhouse and opened another retail store in San Gabriel, Calif., added a four-and-a-half-acre nursery plot in the famed San Fernando Valley. Thus bulwarked from field to chromium counter, Smith set out to make his flowers pay as handsomely as they grew...
...improve matters by professing not to know that his State Department had just decided to recognize revolutionary Guatemala's hated enemy, Salvadoran Dictator Osmin Aguirre. But Ed Stettinius got what he was after, persuaded Guatemala's Foreign Minister Enrique Muñoz Meany and Finance Minister Gabriel Orellana Hijo to accompany him to Mexico City...
Fiorello LaGuardia, taking exception to Winston Churchill's terming the principles of the Atlantic Charter "a guide, not a rule," gave out a scholarly admonition to his fellow statesman: "Winston, if I may use the language of, say, Shakespeare, or Shelley or Dante Gabriel Rossetti or other British classicists, please don't louse...