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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Aboriginal Ideas. "I'm just a rookie at football, I'm no expert," Rickey kept insisting to everyone within hearing. But when pressed he remembered coaching football 40 years ago at his alma mater, Ohio Wesleyan, and the "aboriginal ideas" he picked up there. To his coach, Carl Voyles, who is also in his first year at pro football, Rickey said: "Modern football is speed. Give me four players-a center, a good passing back and two tall, sprinting ends-and you can have the rest." Voyles outbid the National League's Pittsburgh Steelers for a "good...
...Chairs. Nobody could quarrel with Billy's replacements, if they could be had. "To the left of the chairman sits Arturo Toscanini . . . [then] Bernard M. Baruch ... as financial adviser . . . Around the big mahogany table are opera experts like [the Berkshire Festival's] Boris Goldovsky and [Manhattan's City Opera boss] Laszlo Halasz, theater men like Oscar Hammerstein II and Robert Edmond Jones." Others: Stage Directors Elia Kazan, Jose Ferrer, Rouben Mamoulian; Choreographers Agnes de Mille, Antony Tudor, Jerome Robbins. "Who would sit in the 37th [he meant the 38th] chair...
That night, in huge Usher Hall, which looks like a railway station, the first of 40 orchestral concerts burst into life under the talented baton of Eduard van Beinum (TIME, April 12). Next night Amsterdam's famed Concertgebouw Orchestra was led by France's silver-haired Charles Münch (Koussevitzky's heir in Boston...
...Hatfield-McCoy standards, there was too much talk and not anywhere near enough damage. But nobody could accuse Henry Kaiser and Republic Steel's President Charles M. White of not trying. Kaiser, in a surprise deal with War Assets Administrator Jess Larson, had snatched the Government's $28 million Cleveland blast furnace from under White's nose (TIME, Aug. 30); last week, when Senator Kenneth Wherry's Small Business Committee looked into that deal, the feud was out in the open...
...deadlier blandishments. The film's limitations are largely those of its star, though it manages some tension in such rough & tumble scenes as the one where Don José and Garcia (Victor Jory) hack at each other with trowel-sized knives. The story is based on the Prosper Mérimée novel and does not make use of the music from Bizet's opera. It is prettier and more exciting than the opera could ever be without the score-but nothing about it begins to match Bizet's music...