Word: johnson
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Jayvee lineup: Gordon, g; Harrop, Morison, rf; Schock, lf; Langmann, rh; Mudd, ch; Ragle, lh; Chen, Soriano, ro; Gilbert, Jones ri; Wallace, cf; Jessner, lf; Gellert, lo. Freshman lineup: Snook, g; Shafer, rf; Darrell, lf; Sparrow, rh; Gabler, ch; Hansen, lh; Houston, ro; Weiss, ri; Plissner, ch; wolf, Johnson, li; Krogius, Gordon...
...season will be Benjamin Britten's Peter Grimes, which had its U.S. premiere at Serge Koussevitzky's Berkshire Music Festival last year. A bigger and brighter premiere-that of Sergei Prokofiev's War and Peace-had been promised, but postponed. Leftists scoffed at Manager Edward Johnson's explanation: that no adequate translation could be made in time. They hinted that the Met was showing its political bias. Actually, a translation had been made which pleased the Met, but was rejected by Russian officials in New York. A second translation was made which the Russians found acceptable...
...widow, Mrs. Dorothy Caruso (who had two unhappy marriages after Caruso's death, resumed the name of her devoted "Rico" after each divorce), presented a heroically scowling bust of the tenor, flanked by four full-blown little nymphs, to the Met's General Manager Edward Johnson...
When Abbott Joseph ("Joe") Liebling was six, he read in a New York newspaper that a heavyweight named Carl Morris was the White Hope to lick World Champion Jack Johnson. A couple of days later, a fighter named Jim Flynn licked the trunks off the White Hope. That was in 1911. Joe Liebling has mistrusted newspapers ever since...
Unseen Harvests: A Treasury of Teaching (Macmillan; $5) covers everything from Confucius' China to James Thurber's U.S.A., in poems, essays, snitches from novels and snatches of conversation ("There is now less flogging in our great schools," complained Sam Johnson, "but then, there is less learned there; so that what the boys get at one end, they lose at the other"). But most of the chapters are rather unhappy reminiscences...