Word: m
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...separate the peoples of the world today." She had been thinking about the project a long time: "Plato once said that it is the duty of every philosopher to go down into a cave and shape his thoughts. I've been down in the cave. Now, I'm coming...
...learning," because, married at 16, she had never gone beyond high school. Last month, Reporter Amster buttonholed Publisher Mark Ethridge (who also runs the Louisville Courier-Journal) and asked for help. Said she: "I don't want to be writing about kids, dogs and lollipops when I'm...
...seven years as a sportwriter on the New York Journal-American, Hearstling Jeane Hoffman has covered everything from a frog-jumping contest to the World Series and the Belmont Stakes. ("I'm so tall," she says, "I have to interview jockeys sitting down.") In between, hard-boiled Reporter Hoffman found time to toss off some sport features for the Gazette. In naming her executive editor, Publisher Harold H. Roswell gave her orders to try to recapture the Gazette's bygone glories as the "sportsmen's bible...
Said he when it was ended: "I'm not tired at all. Let's do it all over again." Ridgefield (pop. 1,500) would be happy if he did. His first benefit concert there two years ago had earned a neat $9,000 for the Ridgefield Library and Historical Association. Last week, with seats selling as high as $50, he raised $15,500 for the library and Ridgefield Boys' Club. . . . . Two other far-famed conductors also made notable first appearances of the season last week...
...Boston's Symphony Hall, Bostonians greeted silver-haired Alsatian Charles Münch, their first new permanent conductor since Serge Koussevitzky took over 25 years ago. Le Beau Charles had tactfully chosen for his debut the identical program of Weber, Schubert, Handel and Beethoven that inaugurated Symphony Hall 50 years ago. Boston ate it up. Said one 20-season ticket holder: "I didn't expect to enjoy him so much. His shading is so delicate." Said the musicians...