Word: josephs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Home Ties. In Huntsville, Tex., Convict Levurt Whitehurst, who had escaped from a state prison home, checked back in, explaining, "I went to see my grandma." The Book. In Brooklyn, Joseph Attilio, who made the mistake of denting the fender of a car belonging to Patrolman Edward Baldini, was charged with 1) driving without a license, 2) having improper plates, 3) leaving the scene of an accident, 4) dangerous driving...
...knocked over a suburban bar (for about $30) and staged at least two other holdups. Amid confident press speculation that they had probably fled to the country until the heat was off, the two, posing as detectives, then called at the fashionable Neuilly apartment of Joseph de Bisschop, a transport company executive, and walked out with 100,000 francs (about $300) in cash and some $1,400 worth of jewelry...
...Joseph Stalin, it appeared (not dialectics), was really calling the pitch in Soviet music. New York Herald Tribune Musicritic Virgil Thomson quoted an ex-violinist of the Moscow State Symphony: "Anyone acquainted with the . . . 'musical mixed salad' . . . tastes of Stalin will recognize a remarkable similarity between his personal predilections and the officially sponsored concepts." What was it like to play for the boss? "If he likes a performance, he smiles . . . When a performance does not please him, [he] turns his back . . . There can be no greater blow...
...five-year contract with the New York Herald Tribune for a weekly background of the news, a spot newscast backed up by canned shots of locales and personalities; contracts with Elia Kazan and Cheryl Crawford for their Actors Studio, and with Folksinger Alan Lomax, Mystifier Joseph Dunninger...
James, John, Joseph and Fletcher Harper, founding Harper's New Monthly Magazine in 1850, dedicated it to publishing "an immense amount of useful and entertaining reading matter . . ." Last week with the July issue, Harper's changed its page size-but not its purpose-for the first time in 98 years. Frederick Lewis Allen, sixth in the succession of long-lived editors, firmly assured everybody: "We have altered our clothes but not our personality . . . We are still a magazine for people who know how to read and are willing to make the effort...