Word: knowed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...says the authority's able, open-shirted Managing Director Mahmoud Younis, 46, a fellow soldier of Nasser's with good engineering experience. "I realize they have to come to me because there is only one canal, but I also want them to come because they know they will be well served...
...Frost called himself a "Poet in Waiting," demonstrated before newsmen that the west-running brook is still clear at the source. His job in Washington is to encourage the best American poets, and his problem is "how to select. Whom to favor? Not just somebody who says, 'You know me, Al.' " Allusive modern poetry that "doesn't come to some meaning is born dead. Nobody reads it. They write it only for each other." Good poetry is written in "fine, clear pictures." Abstract painting: "A man I know owns a painting of a head with three eyes...
...house from a kind of glorified star club into a smooth-functioning repertory theater. During one rehearsal, temperamental Soprano Farrar turned to him in a fury and shouted: "You forget, maestro, that I am the star!" Toscanini, with a weary wag of his head, replied: "I thank God I know no stars except those in heaven which are perfect...
...public life at 67 as director of Hoover's Reconstruction Finance Corp. Once in 1911 he tried his hand at composition-a simple air entitled Melody in A Major. A friend liked it and sold it to a publisher for $100. Wrote Banker Dawes in his diary: "I know . . . my punster friends will say that if all the notes in my bank are as bad as my musical ones, they are not worth the paper they are written...
...time Agent Rivers got off the Oriental beat this season was when Producers Feuer and Martin insisted that they would cast their new musical Whoop-Up only with full-blooded Indians. "I scoured the area," says Rivers. "My God, I had hundreds of Indians down for the auditions. You know what Feuer and Martin ended up with? A Broadway cast. Not an Indian in it. Just Schmohawks...