Word: guesses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...case of Shostakovich, a few dreamers hoped for more sensational results: the New York musicians' union invited the submissive Soviet composer, who works hard to keep in tune with his masters, to unpack and let "his genius flower ... in the blessed air of freedom." No one could guess how Shostakovich really felt about the idea. By all the evidences he and the artistic high command in the Kremlin were singing in the same key again. Shostakovich had been allowed to leave the country and while he is away Moscow moviegoers are enjoying his latest score, a travesty on Yankee...
...firmly on his feet. He now owns two tractors and a combine; his barn and tool sheds are jammed with plows, harrows, seeders. "I have bought everything I am going to buy," said Horton. "I've got a full line of equipment, about $10,000 worth, I guess, and I'm going to keep...
...Kathleen Ferrier, a Lancashire lass who likes to "keep them guessing a little longer" about her age (best guess: early 30s), Orfeo is "a tremendous emotional experience ... I want to cry all the time." A pianist in her teens, she had never taken a singing lesson until 1940, after she had entered a voice contest on a dare...
...segregation of leprosy patients at Kalaupapa is, said Governor Stainback, "an expensive and useless cruelty ... a survival of a dark age of ignorance and unreasonable fear," since the disease is not highly infectious. Stainback did not say what would happen to the patients if the colony is abolished. Best guess was that they would be sent to the Kalihi receiving station on the island of Oahu, held until doctors found out whether it would be safe to release them. While he was on the subject, Hawaii's governor asked that the name "leprosy" be taken out of the statute...
Last week Producer Selznick announced the closing of his biggest loan-out deal-probably the biggest of its kind in movie history. For a price that ran "well into seven figures" ($1,500,000 was a likely guess), seven Selznick stars will go to Warner Bros, for a total of eleven or twelve pictures: Jennifer Jones (whom D.O.S. is expected to marry this year), Gregory Peck, Joseph Gotten, Louis Jourdan, Shirley Temple, Rory Calhoun and Betsy Drake...