Word: likings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain's more steadfast opponents, Conservative Winston Churchill has long been the cat that walked by himself when he was not clawing the Government for its haste to appease and its tardiness to arm. Like the sly puss in Kipling's Just So Stories, he has had to sit beyond the cozy Government hearth, destined never to warm a Cabinet corner unless somebody spoke him a kind word. Presumably because Winston Churchill is not only the Conservative Party's best brain but its most unpredictable personality, safe & sane Conservatives withheld their kind words until...
Today one may buy a domestic set (two racquets, a bird and a net) for as little as $1.45; or one may pay $45 for an elegant imported British set (with Spanish-cork, French-kid-covered, Czecho-Slovakian-goose-quilled birds) like those used by Bette Davis, Pat O'Brien, Douglas Fairbanks and other Hollywood enthusiasts. Although serious badminton addicts play indoors where there is no breeze to affect the true flight of their birds, many a tournament player, such as Mrs. George Wightman (donor of the Wightman Cup), Tennist Sidney Wood and William Faversham Jr., plays outdoors with...
...Like sopranos, unlike basses and baritones, tenor voices go to seed early. When golden-voiced Enrico Caruso died at 48, he had passed his prime. Jean de Reszke and gut-busting Francesco Tamagno retired at 51. But not yet retired is Giovanni Martinelli, 53, robust, white-mopped tenor who made his debut at Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera the year before the War. Never the undisputed best of the Metropolitan's chandelier-jigglers, Martinelli has been a dependable artist in an enormous repertory (57 roles). In two operas, Verdi's Otello and Halevy's La Juive, critics...
...Bowery. The News is usually annoyed about something. Typical annoyances: traffic regulations, other newspapers ("WE'RE ANNOYED WITH THE NEW YORK TIMES"), the Japanese. Almost every Monday since 1934 the News has run an editorial on the theme of "Two Ships for One." When he feels like it Joe Patterson plugs some pet idea of his own. Most recent and most screwy idea: sex determination...
...Like all of Publisher Patterson's men, however. Managing Editor Deuell is only an intermediate cog in the machine that transforms Joe Patterson's personality into the medium of a newspaper. It was Patterson who ordered the story of his divorce played on Page Two, who decided his marriage to Mary King, editor of his woman's page, was worth only a Page Four position. Publisher Patterson's formula for success is to give the people what they want, but the reason it works so well on the News is that he knows the people...