Word: gorgeous
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Sung as only Flagstad can sing, with her gorgeous, earth-mother quality of sound, The Four Last Songs (Going to Sleep, September, Spring, At Sunset), were echoes of the old composer's most mellow and memorable days. They spoke of a calm tiredness, deep autumnal peace, affection for his wife. At Sunset ended with a quiet and resigned interrogation: "Is this perhaps death?" As the last soft sounds died in the orchestra, one listening musician said, "What an epitaph to write for oneself...
...chemist slips out of the bear hug, the U.S. Army, Navy and FBI are hunting him down like a lost gram of plutonium. Faced with Government control on either side of the political divide, the chemist surrenders to Big Business, and safe in a gilded cage, with a gorgeous chickadee to keep him company, he settles back to watch his pill take effect...
Back in the U.S. after a triumphant, highly publicized international tour, Tennis Star Gertrude ("Gorgeous Gussie") Moran was welcomed editorially by the New York Herald Tribune, which complained that "her interviews are laden with abstruse nonsense of a 'changed woman.' No more lace panties, no more T-shirts, no more plunging necklines. We don't believe a word of it." Meanwhile Gussie's latest in a long series of fiancés, Theater Executive Pat di Cicco (see cut), who met her at the airport in New York, flew back to Hollywood alone to attend...
Honored by the National Association of Master Plumbers (meeting in San Francisco) for being the alltime heroes of U.S. plumbers: Movie Director Cecil B. DeMille (for "selling the plumbing idea throughout the world by his favorite device of divesting some gorgeous creature-female-and filming her in a gold-plated or sunken or even fur-lined bathtub"), and Benjamin Franklin (for bringing back a copper, shoe-shaped bathtub from France...
...Homburg, Germany, Tennis Star Gertrude ("Gorgeous Gussie") Moran teamed up with U.S. High Commissioner John J. McCloy, soundly beat (6-3, 6-3) Lady Elisabeth Macready, wife of the British economic adviser, and Lawrence Phillips, a McCloy associate. Pressed by reporters, Gussie later summed up the current state of her romantic life: "I am not engaged. At least, I don't think...