Word: lustrous
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...playing in Germany under Hitler, now seems disinclined to risk McCarran Act visa difficulties, and the kind of uproar that sent Gieseking home in 1949. He has recorded most of the Beethoven sonatas in the past (for Polydor), but the Decca disks are new and marked by lustrous tone and silent surfaces. Kempff plays with splendid seriousness in the diabolical Hammerklavier, delivers such lighter sonatas as Op. 2, No. 3 with a hint of mischief. Twelve of his performances have been released on six LPs; the rest will be out next month...
...wheels grind erratically. One it turns out smooth, polished, sterling and lustrous. Another rough, crude, callow, and crass. It requires knowledge as for a skilled trade, the application needed for a profession, the devotion for a cause. It demands all of your intellectual, physical, and emotional reserves, but its victories are sweet. Sweetly, Roger Allan Moore National College Director Young Republican National Federation...
Then on to Richmond with Sam to watch the struggles of the young Confederate government and the death agonies of his illegitimate son and his brother in a carriage accident. Next, back to New Orleans, where he sets all the belles a-ringing. A lustrous Creole named Louise Cottier strikes just the right note for Sam, and as the Union fleet captures New Orleans, Sam seizes her "cruelly close" and declaims in the teeth of Confederate defeat: "Come then, my dear. So long as there remain women like you to sustain our Cause, we can never falter...
Steady Ben Hogan, who weighs a mere 137 Ibs., is golf's little wonder. Since the middle of May, he has played in a dozen tournaments, winning nine of them (including the lustrous U.S. Open and the P.G.A.). His average of 69.31 strokes for 76 rounds makes him the likely winner of the Vardon Trophy. He is also the P.G.A.'s top moneymaker, with $32,112 in official prizes. Last week, the P.G.A. announced that radio and press writers, with hardly a moment's hesitation, had voted Hogan "golfer-of-the-year...
...trouble with The Leading Lady was not that it preferred glamor to reality but that it never came close to either. It requires a little more than costumes, clichés and a liberal sprinkling of famous names to make a period and a profession seem lustrous; simply calling a bit-player "Maudie" does not make her Maude Adams. The Leading Lady, to be sure, had its moments-thanks largely to such accomplished character actors as Ethel Griffies and William J. Kelly-but there were not enough of them for the play to. run more than one week...