Word: limelighters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...before large audiences whom he described as follows: "Their lack of knowledge on this vital subject is appalling, but, once informed, their enthusiasm for our movement is equally encouraging." In the short space of three months, Mr. Taft has lifted an old but relatively obscure association to front-page limelight so forcibly that for the first time in the history of Connecticut all political parties have strong specific planks in their platforms on the Merit System. Membership in the organization has quadrupled, and the organization is being adequately financed by private contributions...
Young Eugene Ormandy walked briskly into the Philadelphia limelight last week, hopped onto the Stokowski throne and in a determined, businesslike manner commanded attention for two Bach transcriptions, arranged by Lucien Cailliet, a jolly bespectacled Frenchman, known by Philadelphians as one of their regular clarinetists. After Cailliet's Bach came Mozart's Fourth Violin Concerto with Fritz Kreisler as soloist, forerunning such headliners as Josef Hofmann, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Kirsten Flagstad, Vladimir Horowitz, Mischa Levitzki, Jascha Heifetz, Lawrence Tibbett, Artur Schnabel, all sure bait for customers not altogether sure of a youthful new conductor. Fritz Kreisler's spell...
...knew all about this case before it caught the limelight. ... I know Mary Astor well. My husband met her just about this time a year ago. I was in Honolulu and he was working in Hollywood. They had a flirtation. ... I cannot see any terrible harm in that. Is it unusual for a husband to flirt with an actress? We have been married 20 years. We are adults, leading our own lives in adult fashion...
Other vigorous oldsters in the scientific limelight at Rochester last week were Professor Frederick George Novy, 71, of the University of Michigan, and President Edward Bausch, 81, of Rochester's Bausch & Lomb Optical Co. To Septuagenarian Dr. Novy, only living U. S. bacteriologist who studied under Pasteur (1822-95), one of the few living who studied under Koch (1843-1910), prototype of benign and learned Dr. Gottlieb in Sinclair Lewis' Arrowsmith, Octogenarian Mr. Bausch, who still designs new optical devices, last week gave a newly completed microscope, 250,000th built by Bausch & Lomb during 60 years of manufacturing...
...President by his party, on the other hand, if casual, was at least certain, and if this is not the case at the Philadelphia convention, it will be most unusual. The obvious inference is that Massachusetts Republicans voted for Landon because he is the most in the limelight at the present moment, an uncertain reason at best. If the hopes of the G. O. P. are going to come true, it must back a candidate with more qualifications than the fact that there doesn't seem to be any one else to bear the standard...