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Finally defeated in 1942, George Norris retired to the quiet, shady house in McCook. He settled down to smoke his long-stemmed pipe, to listen to the radio, to muse over the Nebraska countryside, and to dictate his autobiography. He began to grumble that he could not "stay quiet and live...
...than the browbeating of his talent. His rehearsals are continuously good-humored. He is a genius at making singers relax. For martinet choirmasters Father Finn has nothing but contempt. Writes he, in his effulgent Hibernian prose: "Sometimes [these conductors] seem content to fabricate their figures in ice, hankering to muse in temperatures below zero, phrasing frozen notations with icicle-batons. From the arctics and antarctics which they explore, they bring a refrigeration that benumbs artistic sensibilities. Many an auditorium is converted into a 'thrilling region of thick-ribbed ice,' the loges and stalls becoming igloos of inadequate shelter...
...thing about being a columnist, rather than a general reporter, is that the columnist can pursue his wretched muse all over the place, ignoring the sound and the fury all about him. Ignoring the NEWS, is what I mean to say. So in spite of frustrations of one kind and another such as are seen on every hand these days, we shall proceed with the usual whimsicalities...
Thus Winston Churchill remembers his first vigorous move, in 1915, towards his favorite hobby. Back in 1915, as a fallen Lord of the Admiralty, Churchill had need of an absorbing activity. He had long hours of unwanted leisure. "And then it was," he wrote, "that the Muse of Painting came to my rescue . . . and said, 'Are these toys any good to you? They amuse some people...
Well, here 'tis another week and again we have no time to write home to Ma, much less write columns for newspapers. But we've got our pants now and nothing can mar our happiness. So, pardon us if we just muse for 250 words or so... to express that carefree spirit which is ours...