Word: leonarde
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...night he heard Tito Schipa sing an aria and decided to be an opera singer. By 1936 he wangled an au dition at the Metropolitan, but when he discovered the small size of his starting salary, he gave in to an offer to appear in the Elsa Maxwell-Leonard Sillman Who's Who. Who's Who did not turn out to be Sonny. He played another musical, began singing in nightclubs like Manhattan's Glass Hat, Famous Door, and Beachcomber. He might still be 1'ving on his larynx if a friend had not said...
...Idea, a New Major. Australian Newsman Reg B. Leonard launched Guinea Gold in his spare time while covering the New Guinea campaign for the Melbourne Herald. It made such a hit with Allied troops that Australian General Thomas A. Blarney arranged for Correspondent Leonard's transfer to the Australian Army, gave him a major's rank and a full-time (15-hours...
Twice Guinea Gold ran out of newsprint. The first time Editor Leonard scrounged some ghastly yellow paper, printed a limited edition on it. Next time he uncovered a batch of glossy art paper, for a week published luxury issues...
...critics caned the show unmercifully. But the public, its pockets bulging, is paying scant attention to the critics this season; and to swarms of visiting servicemen and welders, Gypsy Rose Lee is a dazzling name. The second night-reported Columnist Leonard Lyons-Director Kaufman phoned to learn the worst. Todd chuckled: "We had 14 standees." Snapped Kaufman: "Say that slowly. I know you must be hysterical." Said Todd slowly: "Fourteen standees." "Send me the statement, verified," barked Kaufman. "And if what you say is true, then I'll quit show business...
When the index was given its last major overhauling, in the campaign year of 1940, there were cries from many a bigwig statistician, including Cleveland's Brigadier General Leonard P. Ayres, that the updating was for political purposes. This time, outside of the necessary slide-rule juggling to bring related indexes into line, there was no commotion. Most businessmen, ear-deep in war work, now have only an academic regard for FRB's index. They gauge their business prospects by the communiqu...