Word: guess
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first program of the year, Koussevitzky has chosen the Boethoven Fifth Symphony, and a new work by Vaughan-Williams called A London Symphony. Unless I miss my guess, half his audience will snore through the first half of the program; the other half will go to sleep in the second. This suggests at once the obstacles against which a conductor must labor in planning his programs...
...Right the second guess. For a picture of a Bystander seated see page 57 of TIME, Sept...
Allen's show brings him an estimated $10,000 a week, out of which he has to pay the salaries of his troupe and gagsters. Good guess at his balance would be $5,000. This is his steady income. He recently received $100,000 in Hollywood for making Love Thy Neighbor with Jack Benny...
Modern consensus, says Astronomer Jones, is that the markings are not canals but natural formations of some sort. So the existence of intelligent beings, or even of any animal life, on Mars is still anybody's guess. If there are any Martian creatures, they must have adapted themselves to a very slow rate of oxygen intake. But all observers agree that there are distinct seasonal changes in some of the Martian markings. Certain dark areas are green in summer, grey or brown in winter. It is hard to conceive that these changes could be caused by anything but vegetation...
Thomas is proud of his varied activities, mum on how much they add to his bank roll. Good guess at his annual earnings would be $200,000. Of this, $15,000 goes to Buranelli, $5,000 to Sherwin. The remainder helps Thomas to run his estate on Quaker Hill in New York's Dutchess County, where he lives with his wife and 17-year-old son Lowell Jr. There on fat rolling acres Thomas maintains a fine big Colonial mansion, two swimming pools, a silver fox farm, a small radio studio, a baseball diamond, a four-piece orchestra...