Word: naming
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Frankfurt last week came the kind of story that more & more headlines are made of: the Army had investigated TVA Chairman Gordon R. Clapp, and found him unfit for a temporary occupation job in Germany. The officer who leaked the story would not let his name be used, but he was willing to make a few large remarks under the protection of anonymity. ". . . Why would he be permitted to remain as head of TVA?" he asked. "I think it is a terrible situation and ought to get an airing...
...audience in Tchaikovsky Hall. He sang in English, French, Spanish and Russian, and tried out his own version of some of the words in Ol' Man River ("We must fight to death for peace and freedom"). He also introduced to the Russians an old favorite called Scandalize My Name, and dedicated it to the "socalled free Western press." The comrades loved every minute...
...trip to the moon. It sounded like fun, but the first problem was to find the score. Il Mondo had been resurrected in Germany in 1932, but had never been produced in the U.S. Leavitt finally found the German version through a Manhattan publisher, changed the name to The Man in the Moon, and set about squeezing it down for Lemonade Opera...
...Controversy. Dr. Elmer L. Henderson, of Louisville, Ky., chairman of the Board of Trustees, handed out the black spot toward the end of the dull opening session of the House of Delegates in the Hotel Traymore's white and gold American room. Dr. Henderson, later named president-elect in a cut & dried election, began his report on "the activities of the editor" with an admission that "the board ... is aware of the criticism of the editor." Fishbein's name was not mentioned until the next-to-last paragraph. Then there was a suave tribute to his "genius...
...might add that I have condensed this conversation a good deal. But even in its original form, it meant nothing to me. Snappy backs? Godin? Firing line? I made polite murmurs of agreement, just to draw my companion out, to see if he would mention one name or one phrase that I could comprehend. It was useless...