Word: master
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...political society-assorted czars, administrators and politicians. They were met together to eat roast chicken, Virginia ham, peas, potato croquettes, salad, ice cream and coffee, to drink California sauterne and, more important, to get an answer to the biggest of the Democrats' political questions: has The Old Master still...
...Master looked considerably thinner but very fit.* He ate heartily, drank only half of his glass of California sauterne, and sat thoughtfully oversmoking through the banquet. For the benefit of the Teamsters, the band played Don't Change Horses in the Middle of the Stream, while Franklin Roosevelt made penciled notes on his manuscript. Then it was time to go on the air, before the millions of citizens who were also asking: Has he still...
...Master still had it. Franklin Roosevelt was at his best. He was like a veteran virtuoso playing a piece he has loved for years, who fingers his way through it with a delicate fire, a perfection of timing and tone, and an assurance that no young player, no matter how gifted, can equal. The President was playing what he loves to play-politics...
...Marquise de Polignac, onetime Manhattan Socialite Nina Crosby, since 1917 wife of the master of France's great champagne house (Pommery), was jailed in Paris as an alleged collaborationist. To comfort her in her confinement, she had an air mattress on her bed, stores of cosmetics, plenty of clothes. She said she had driven an ambulance before the Nazis came, denied that she had been a collaborator, claimed to have won seven prisoners their freedom through her German embassy acquaintances...
...high ($400 to $600). The quality of tone, at present, is inferior to that of discs. Experts conceded a limited postwar use for wire recording as developed by the U.S. armed forces, thought the wire recorder might in time replace dictaphones. But wire recordings cannot be printed from master records, like discs. Each must be re-recorded from the master, separately. With 60% of the recording industry's output (in prewar years close to a million discs a week) devoted to popular music, the wire recording process would be far too slow...