Word: napoleonism
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Marilyn Monroe's purr "I had the radio on" when she posed for her now historic nude calendar picture was after a historic precedent. When Pauline Bonaparte, Princess Borghese and sister of Napoleon, was chided for having posed in the nude for Canova's famous statue of her as Venus Victrix, she calmly stated: "I wasn't cold with a fire in the room...
Word got around that Harrell was a singer who never choked in the clutch of modern music. Without so much as raising his sun-bleached eyebrows, he spoke the rhythmically complex narrator's part in the world premiere of Schönberg's Ode to Napoleon with the Philharmonic in 1944, sang the lead in Bernard Rogers' opera The Warrior...
Died. Dr. Abraham Simon Wolf Rosenbach. 75, the world's No. 1 rare-book dealer and one of its most avid collectors; after long illness; in Philadelphia. Called the "Napoleon of Books" by rival bibliophiles who often watched him skim off the cream of the rare-books sales, "Rosy" owned, at one time or another, a $25,000,000 collection of rare volumes. Among them: eight Gutenberg Bibles, between 30 and 40 first folios of Shakespeare, and the famous Bay Psalm Book, first book printed (1640) in Britain's American colonies, which he bought for a "reasonable...
Listen & Learn. When he was eleven, Napoleon ran away to New Orleans, began working out his own way of playing the trumpet ("I was playing before Louis Armstrong got out of the Waif's Home"). At 16 he formed his own Original Memphis Five, soon found himself proprietor of one of the most popular little outfits in the U.S. For a while, a youngster named Bix Beiderbecke, who was to die at 28 and become a jazz immortal, carried Phil's horn for him, listening and learning. Between 1917 and 1925 the Memphis Five made 3,011 records...
...symphonic" bands were the rage. Napoleon organized one of his own. Among its 15 members were Glenn Miller, Russ Morgan, Joe Venuti, Tommy and Jimmy Dorsey, and Artie Shaw. It anticipated the age of swing by half a dozen years, but never caught on outside of Brooklyn. Phil Napoleon left the jazz business and became a trumpeter-of-all-work at N.B.C. There, for 22 years, he played "Stravinsky one hour, soap opera the next." Finally he decided he was ready to quit playing...