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...music room in the palatial villa of Mrs. Lafcadio Mifflin at Newport. Mrs. Mifflin, a majestic woman in a slim-pin Bemberg corselet well boned over the diaphragm (Stern Brothers, fourth floor), is seated at the console of her Wurlitzer, softly wurlitzing to herself. Mr. Mifflin, in a porous-knit union suit from Franklin Simon's street floor, is stretched out by the fire like a great, tawny cat. Inasmuch as there is a great, tawny cat stretched out alongside him, also wearing a porous-knit union suit, it is not immediately apparent which is Mifflin...
Besides, Sergeant Malmuth, I don't know how to knit, but I'm a darn good stenographer...
...considerable financial sacrifice Lemay resigned as assistant conductor of the Minneapolis Orchestra, guided the orchestra through the formative stage, knit its 90 mechanics, doctors, professional musicians and amateurs into an enthusiastic, loyal, harmonious whole and skillfully led them to noteworthy musical excellence...
...moment, the western world knew almost nothing. Most people in the U.S. had never heard his name. Yet he was a man who had devoted all his latter years to a scheme of Asian empire which touched the Russians and the Chinese first of all, but in the close-knit world of 1942 mattered enormously to the U.S. as well. He was a short and flabby man of 57, with protruding cheekbones and a mummy-like skin, who had said of himself: "I have often been likened to a corpse on reprieve...
...good radio director must be able to handle actors, sound and music for the creation of a single well-knit performance. His work is done fast, without benefit of retakes or tryouts on the road. He possesses talents easily comparable to those of much more greatly publicized stage and screen directors...