Word: mortes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Stokowski had been engaged to conduct the Mexico Symphony Orchestra in a broadcast in memory of the torpedoing of the tanker Potrero del Llano, which led to Mexico's entry into the war. One of the numbers programmed was La Mort, whose composer is kindly, snowy-haired Manuel Ponce, a Mexican Indian whose Estrellita is one of the most popular songs of all time...
...explanatory as anyone was ample, well-meaning Contralto Josefina ("Cha-cha") Aguilar, who sang Ponce's La Mort under another conductor. She had handed the six-instrument score to Stokowski. It was not Ponce's score; Ponce, unable to find a full orchestral score, had agreed to let her offer the smaller one to the conductor, but asked her to explain the situation. Somehow the explanation got lost along...
...attitude of the Command must [also] be taken into consideration. The Army Air Forces is a highly publicity-minded outfit. . . . The musical play, Winged Victory, is proof. ... So is the efficient and outsized . . . A.A.F. publicity bureau. Result: a mort of publicity and medals. . . . One not-too-prominent Army pilot has 14 various medals. A comparable Marine pilot...
Chandler had pitched two good World Series games and lost them both. His Cardinal opposite, burly Mort Cooper, a 21-game winner this year, knows the power of such jinxes. Despite two years of brilliant National League hurling, Mort Cooper has yet to beat an American League team...
Adams' third victory of the week came at the expense of Dudley last Wednesday with the scoreboard reading 9 to 2. Mort Mendselsohn was the winning pitcher in this lop-sided baseball contest...