Word: herbert
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...HERBERT BAUER...
...books from the fighting fronts appeared steadily; they were generally competent, rarely outstanding. Among the favorites after Ernie Pyle's homespun anthologies; Jack Belden's frank, often bitter Still Time to Die; Target: Germany, the admirable, official story of the Eighth U.S.A.A.F. ; Captain Herbert L. Merillat's detailed report of the battle for Guadalcanal, The Island; Charles Wertenbaker's Invasion! For warmly personal reasons, Mina Curtiss' Letters Home, 254 samples of the billions of letters that U.S. service men have written home since they went to war, became a public favorite...
...first installment was broadcast last Sunday on the regular Toscanini-conducted NBC Symphony program, with a second installment to follow this week. For his Fidelia the maestro drew heavily on the Metropolitan's roster, allotted principal roles to Sopranos Rose Bampton and Eleanor Steber, Tenor Jan Peerce, Baritone Herbert Janssen, Bass Nicola Moscona. At the end of the broadcast, a distinguished audience-including half of Manhattan's top-rank musical celebrities, who had frantically begged their invitations-caught its breath, hoped fervently that the maestro might somehow make a more lasting peace with opera...
...King, and shook hands with every top diplomat in sight. (In England he was even more tweedy than the British.) Home again, he worked long on an elaborate chart "reorganizing" the State Department. The only major changes proved to be the disgruntled departures of such able men as Dr. Herbert Feis and Laurence Duggan, but this was the fault of feuding Cordell Hull, who was not keen on reorganization, anyway. Stettinius is proud of his attempt to redecorate the department's archaic architectural monstrosity. He created a pretty press room, increased the wattage of lights and removed the desks...
Divorced. Herbert Asbury, 53, slummer in the pasts of U.S. cities (The Gangs of New York, The Barbary Coast, The French Quarter), associate editor of Collier's; by Helen Hahn Asbury, 41, Manhattan advertising executive, sister of repatriated Orientalist Emily Hahn; after 16 years of marriage; in Mexico...