Word: guesses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bulk into her niece's tot-sized red rocking chair to pass the time of day with friend Hoagy Carmichael. When she tried to get up, the chair got up with her. Said Mildred with a laugh: "This ol' rockin' chair's got me, I guess." A month later, Composer Carmichael had finished the song that made Mildred famous...
Said a SCAP official last week to TIME Correspondent Carl Mydans: "It's pure speculation, but it's my guess that when MacArthur announces his departure you can look for an announcement that Hirohito has stepped out-or when you hear that Akihito has become Emperor you'll hear of MacArthur's leaving." Other Tokyo observers speculated that an abdication might be timed to coincide with "the end of the occupation...
...town of Berea, Ohio, an elderly lady walked up to a student on the street last week and asked: "Are you the one?" Harrison ("Bones") Dillard, 24, son of a day laborer, grinned. "Guess I am," he replied. The old lady grabbed his hand and said that she was certainly glad to know...
...opera: he has written four, but none has ever been published. One of them, Troubled Island, with a libretto adapted from a play by Poet Langston Hughes, was rejected by the Metropolitan, says Still, because it called for an all-Negro cast. "They never heard of makeup, I guess...
...hopes that New York's energetic City Opera (TIME, Nov. 3) will perform one of his operas: "Now that I have one foot in the grave [he is in good health at 53], I guess I've got a better chance...