Word: greats
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sometimes Thomas' investigations are long and painstaking. In the case of his cover story on Toscanini (TIME, April 26, 1948), he had had two years in which to become intimately familiar with the great conductor's work. The National Broadcasting Company studios are just across the street from the TIME & LIFE building, and Thomas used to run over for Thursday afternoon rehearsals of Toscanini's NBC orchestra. There, in the control room, Thomas had a rare musician's-eye view of Toscanini at work and an unequaled chance to note his careful preparation, his humor...
...piece about the Kanawha, the river that flows through his home town. He offered to pay the conductor-composer of the Charleston Symphony Orchestra $1,000 for the kind of composition he had in mind. A fortnight ago the biggest Charleston symphony audience in history heard the result with great pleasure...
...told 800 early risers: "I hope you don't catch cold. But I suppose you Illinois folks are used to this weather." As the train rolled along the upper Mississippi, he climbed up into the vista-dome car provided by the Burlington Railroad, gazed out at the great river that licked at the roadbed. He cracked that the Mississippi didn't really get big until it was joined by the Missouri...
...objective of integration would interfere with Western Europe's urgent short-range objective of earning more dollars. Politicians are afraid that economic hardships would give the Communists a chance to recapture lost ground. Said London's Economist last week: "[It] is not possible ... to telescope into one great act of policy a process which took over three generations to complete in the preindustrial United States...
...Macao subsists merely by sufferance of the Chinese, who can starve the place and dispossess the Portuguese whenever they please. This obliges the governor to behave with great circumspection and carefully to avoid every circumstance that may give offense to the Chinese...