Word: lessers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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These songs are scored mainly by three undergraduates, but the Kroks' prize arrangements come from Mr. Foster Trainer, a retired Boston businessman. Mr. Trainer appeared on the seene last December, and immediately delighted the Krokodiloes with his skill at jazz piano, and an endless store of lesser-known cabaret songs. Since then, he has contributed arrangements of everything from the saucy "Winter Nights" to the perennial "You Can Tell a Harvard Man"--all skillfully constructed with taste and contrapunal deftness...
...that Hilary Minc, who had succeeded Gomulka as Poland's economic boss, was also on the skids. The most spectacular new outbreak of Titoism occurred in Georgi Dimitrov's own Bulgaria, where Deputy Premier Traicho Kostov was arrested last week with five high Communist officials and 300 lesser fry. Their crime: "Spying...
...Demon Rum. Gaunt and black-bearded, humorless and generally disliked, he licked alcohol by legislation in his native state (1914), did as much as any man to bring prohibition to the U.S. Like many of his contemporaries who believed that morality could be legislated, he periodically struck out at lesser demons. Dancing, tobacco, Coca-Cola and even football ("neither manly nor Christian") felt his indignant lash. But in 1930, this paragon of virtue, by then long a bishop and according to H. L. Mencken "the most powerful ecclesiastic ever heard of in America," was accused by the elders...
...British embassy managed a stag dinner for Ernie Bevin with Secretary Acheson and Senators Tom Connally and Arthur Vandenberg. Acheson also dined at the French embassy, but other hosts had to be content with lesser functionaries such as Under Secretary Webb (the Italian embassy) and Counselor "Chip" Bohlen (The Netherlands). The Scandinavians entertained each other...
Most of the big brushes of French painting-Matisse, Braque, Rouault and Dufy-were not competing. Partly to avoid discouraging lesser-knowns, they had not been invited. The situation with regard to the biggest brush of all, Pablo Picasso, was tantalizingly obscure. Somebody (possibly Picasso himself) had signed his name to a list of French artists, most of them Communists, attacking the Marshallizing of French art. At the same time, Picasso had sold reproduction rights for at least one of his paintings, Mother and Child (see cut), to Hall Brothers, Inc. in a private deal last year. On the Riviera...