Word: hops
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Born. To Henry Tindall ("Dick") Merrill, 42, crack Eastern Air Lines pilot who made the first round-trip hop between the U. S. and Europe; and Martha Virginia ("Toby") Wing, 22-year-old cinemactress: a son, their first child; in Manhattan. Fortnight ago newshawks found out they had been married since last June...
Last Monday Critic Lawrence Oilman had the sniffles. Reading Donald Tovey's recondite Essays in Musical Analysis, he came across a sentence which made him hop out of bed and call up NBC's Musical Commentator Samuel Chotzinoff. Did Mr. Toscanini know that Wagner's original prelude to the third act of Tannhauser, which got only one performance (at the opera's world premiere, 1845), was much longer than the one usually played? Arturo Toscanini, who has a memory like a telephoto camera, could remember having seen some such score. On Tuesday a phone call...
Dartmouth's sophomore jumping-jack, Don Blount, who has cleared 6 feet 4 and one-half inches, and covered 24 feet in the overland hop is odds-on favorite in the jumps, but Harvard is not out of the running if Bob Partlow and Captain Bob Haydock find themselves after a rather disappointing winter season...
Muriel Fane, dull, constantly depressed daughter of John; and Henry Morton, a dreary hop-farmer. Hops slump, she has children; between them they are so comfortably, wholeheartedly gloomy that the marriage survives...
...like a pygmy, showed them that his famed strategy of getting in close and pounding away with both fists-fast, furiously and from all angles-is hard to solve, harder to beat. By the time Garcia succeeded in landing his bolo (in the twelfth round) it had lost its hop...