Word: goldens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Metropolitan Revivals (Enrico Caruso. Luisa Tetrazzini, Marcella Sembrich. Antonio Scotti, Geraldine Farrar, Marcel Journet, Louise Homer and others; Victor; 8 sides). Despite their mechanical and tonal obsolescence, Victor's oldtime recordings prove that the Golden Age voices were as beautiful as oldtimers claim...
Gene Sarazen, Golden Age golf champion, sold his 200-acre Connecticut farm to radio's Gabriel Heatter for some $85,-ooo, said he was through with "serious" golf for good, had got rid of the farm to concentrate on selling precision tools. Now 41, he observed: "Pretty soon it won't be a question of whether I can play four rounds in a championship but whether I can walk them." Henry Krakow, who as "King Levinsky" was a notable clown among the heavyweights (and lasted 141 seconds with Joe Louis), was picked up in Detroit for Chicago detectives...
...enemy people is decisively high compared to what it was at the outbreak of the war. . . . However, the U.S. also has many weak points. . . . The first weak point, I say, is the democratic system. . . . We hear of the emphasis placed on 'freedom of speech,' which is the golden rule of the democratic nation, but public opinion lacks unity. Worse than this, often the people publicly state their disagreements with the strategy concerning the prosecution...
...John Golden, 69-year-old Broadway producer (Three's A Family), who wrote the lyric of Poor Butterfly, was the author of a new one: the official theme song of New York City's Department of Sanitation. Sample...
...Willow Run and Boeing's Seattle plants, this is a sensational achievement. Vice President Conant's explanation for the phenomenon: "We have had good airplanes. We didn't have to stop and swallow any debacles." Douglas has not achieved this efficiency through any special golden-rule-and-free-showers treatment of workers, though his paternalistic Welfare Department is large...