Word: master
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Master Mariner Henry Asbjorn Larsen knew then that he had turned Point Barrow into the Bering Sea. He knew that he had done what no other man had done: navigated the legendary Northwest Passage from west to east and back again. Last week Staff Sergeant Larsen piloted the weather-beaten 80-ton Royal Canadian Mounted Police ship, St. Roch, into Vancouver Harbor. She was just 86 days out of Halifax, had sailed on a 7,500-mile trip around the top of North America...
...most widely popular singer of classical songs in the U.S. is grey-haired, beaming, 195-lb. Nelson Eddy. The 43-year-old baritone is one of the three most popular singers, in any league.* Last week he was well away in a new show as master of ceremonies and star of The Electric Hour (CBS, Wed., 10:30 p.m. E.W.T.). His job: to make listeners feel happy about the 160 electric-light & power companies which sponsor him. His method: songs and banter...
Though she is a past master of the whole coloratura repertory, she has probably done less opera singing than any other important singer alive. As she expresses it: "I nevaire got seriously eento eet. To be a success you haf to fought for eet, and I didn't fought." After this week's recital it looked as though Korjus was destined for a U.S. operatic future, whether she fought...
...more profoundly affected modern thought than the late, great Sigmund Freud. Yet few close-ups of Freud exist. The father of psychoanalysis has usually been seen from afar. Last week appeared a warmly intimate portrait of Freud: Master and Friend (Harvard University Press; $2.50), by Dr. Hanns Sachs of Harvard, a survivor of the early group of six close disciples...
Sister Mary Elaine, its composer, is no musical amateur. A member of the music staff at the College of Our Lady of the Lake, she has a master's degree in composition from Chicago's American Conservatory, and has written more than 500 pieces, including fugues, passacaglias, a concerto, four other masses. Born some 30 years ago in Fredericksburg, Tex., home town of Admiral Chester Nimitz, she is an accomplished pianist and has a lightning musical memory that enables her to write down or play a complicated piece a week after hearing it. She has long been interested...