Word: like
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...journalism. Last week, in The Catholic Crisis (Messner, $3), Author Seldes uttered some hoarse Bronx cheers at the Roman Catholic Church. His thesis is that the Church has dallied too long with Fascism, and his book suggests that his way of fixing things would be to have someone like Oswald Garrison Villard for Pope. He devotes more than 300 pages to accusing Catholic churchmen and laymen of all manner of misdeeds-pressure against the press and the cinema, devious activities in politics, assaults on civil liberties-which, though in part damaging, are not all germane to the subject. Privately last...
...Berlin and went home for a rest (weary of constant Nazi threats to muzzle him), Herald Tribune editors debated long over Beach Conger's youth and inexperience, finally gave him Barnes's place. Blond, meticulous, with close-cropped hair and thick-lensed spectacles, Conger looks like a respectable German official. Within two hours after his arrival in Berlin he had telephoned more people than Joseph Barnes knew. Most of them were young Nazis who had once been his schoolmates...
...switched to it for life. In 1937, when NBC officials were recruiting their new NBC Symphony, they heard a phonograph record of Violist Primrose playing a Paganini caprice. Never had they heard or heard tell of such fast & fluent viola playing, at first thought some super-brilliant violinist like Jascha Heifetz had made the record under an assumed name. They telegraphed Primrose, then on tour with the London String Quartet, and offered him the job of Toscanini's chief viola player. He accepted...
...hotels in out-of-the-way Canadian and Midwestern towns. He reaches a bigger audience in one concert than he could in 15 years of barnstorming, and without any more discomfort than it takes to step from a subway into a cozy broadcasting studio. "It makes you feel like an orchid," says William Primrose...
Many a mewling white tenor has strutted the proscenium at Manhattan's Metropolitan while more gifted Negro singers, by long-standing custom, were excluded. But in the field of concert singing Negroes like Roland Hayes and Paul Robeson have held their own with the best. Today's most famous Negro singer is soft-spoken Contralto Marian Anderson, whose big, warm-blooded voice is conceded to be one of the world's finest. Last summer at the tony Berkshire Festival near Stockbridge, Mass., another remarkable Negro voice! this time a soprano, threatened to claim a share of Contralto...