Word: madnesses
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
With his All-American Youths Stokowski took a crew of Columbia recording engineers, mainly to make symphonic discs on shipboard. But while the ship was docked at Rio, Conductor Stokowski lined up Brazilian talent. In one mad session lasting a whole day and night, native groups filed on & off the boat. Results: these two albums...
Last December W. R. Grace & Co. got good & mad. The four Panagra directors named by Pan Am refused to let Panagra petition for a route north from Panama. So Grace went ahead on its own hook, filed an application-complaint with CAB. The application: a terminal for Panagra in New Orleans, Tampa or Miami. The complaint: "connecting service [by Pan Am] has become increasingly inadequate. . . . [The new route] would forever free the Panagra service from dependence on a connecting carrier . .. whose interests can never be expected to be exclusively service to the Panagra route." Pan Am says it has fulfilled...
...hurry. G.M. made sure of this last week by telling dealers that it would buy back as many cars as they wanted to sell. Price: dealer cost plus $5 to $15 for each month the car was held after January's end. Terms: hard cash. G.M. mad? this offer to 1) prevent a wild dealer scramble for the few people authorized to buy cars under the new rationing orders; 2) keep the cars from going to illegitimate dealers; 3) keep regular dealers solvent. Chrysler, Ford, other car makers may soon announce similar schemes...
Died. Grand Duke Dmitri Pavlovitch, 50, cousin of the late Tsar Nicholas II of Russia; of tuberculosis; in Davos, Switzerland. Handsome Dmitri in 1916 helped Prince Felix Youssoupov with the patriotic liquidation (poison, many shots) of "Mad Monk" Rasputin, close adviser of the Tsarina. After the revolution, Dmitri was in line for pretendership to the throne, refused it in favor of his cousin Cyril Vladimirovitch. In 1926 he married American Heiress Audrey Emery (40 millions), was divorced in 1937. Dmitri was a brother of Grand Duchess Marie (Education of a Princess), half-brother of Princess Natalie Paley (Mrs. John...
...middle western town in the horse and buggy days. Robert Cummings plays a local boy who returns to Kings Row after studying the newfangled field of psychiatry and uncovers aberrations by the dozen in the minds of its citizens. His best friend, for example, Ronald Reagan, is being driven mad by morbid reflection on the loss of his legs. And Reagan's former fiance is going mad too, which causes no little worriment to her father, who is a sadistic doctor, and to her mother, who is a vengeful religious fanatic. And then there is another doctor, Claude Rains...