Word: master
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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What kind of songs does a songwriter write when he is writing just for fun? Last week one Tin Pan Alley master gave this question a masterly and very personal answer. Broadway and Hollywood's Harry Ruby, hysterical baseball fan and composer of dozens of song hits from Oh, What a Pal Was Mary to Three Little Words, published a collection of his avocational efforts called Songs My Mother Never Sang (Random House, $2.50). This tunesmith's holiday provides musical America with a richly burlesque little sheaf of songs, including numbers entitled Indelible...
...Sometimes I wish that that great master of intuition, the Nazi leader, could have been present at the Quebec conference. ... If he and his generals had known our plans they would have realized that discretion is still the greater part of valor and that surrender would pay them better now than later...
...seven weeks, the Red and Nazi master players feinted, traded pawns, moved flesh-and-steel chessmen across Russia's vast chessboard. For seven weeks, in a desperate effort to fathom each other's strategy, they pored over maps, battle reports, messages from spies and scouts. Last week both knew: the Russians had outguessed and outplayed their...
Equaeverpoise. Des Moines citizens who were curious about Lawsonomy could find some books and newspapers on the subject in the city library. Lawsonomy is to produce "the master human intellects of all time." It introduced "zigzag and swirl movement" and the law of penetrability. Samples of what the new university will teach and give degrees for: "From waste matter . . . elements of air and water . . . [and] from the Sun, Menorgs create living things. . . . The Menorgs found it more difficult to balance a two-legged animal than ... a six-legged one.... EQUAEVERPOISE of man is effected principally in three ways: 1) Nourishment...
...further Christine's career he steals the master key of the opera house, puts a Mickey Finn into Christine's rival's drink, sends poison-pen letters, strangles a soprano and her maid, saws a huge chandelier from its chain during the performance of an opera in which Christine's rival is singing. The hard-pressed Surete (French FBI) ultimately has to call on Composer Franz Liszt (German Shakespearian Actor Fritz Leiber) to aid them in bagging the cagey Phantom...