Word: koven
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...originally a concert number; Verdi's, from the opera Otello; Mascagni's, based on the Cavalria Rusticana intermezzo; and Bach-Gounod's (the Bach original was a clavier prelude, later adapted by Gounod as a love song). Also banned: Oh, Promise Me, from De Koven's operetta Robin Hood; Because ("secular"); I Love You Truly ("profane...
...From time to time, William McCormick Blair Jr., a Stevenson assistant, came out of his parents' house to survey the scene uneasily. He decided to open up the garden between the Blair house and the four-story brick home of his 93-year-old grandmother, Mrs. Louise de Koven Bowen. She wouldn't be disturbed; she was up at the family house near Waukegan. In the garden the Blair butler, Herman, set up a makeshift bar and plugged in a portable radio for the reporters...