Word: nights
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Despite the charms of Elizabeth Taylor, the only stars I would go out on a rainy night to see are Joan Crawford, Bette Davis and Clark Gable...
...That night at the gala dinner, the politicos had their happy fill of virtue, curried shrimp and good cheer. Harry Truman kidded Vice President Alben Barkley about his St. Louis girl friend, and McGrath introduced the Veep, to great applause, as "the squire of Paducah and the new spirit of St. Louis." Barkley said imperturbably that "there has always been an inseparable connection between Kentucky and Missouri and it looks like it's going to continue-I hope...
...England, Van Dyck had everything, but like King Charles, he couldn't keep it. The elegant night life wore him down; the importunities of such lovely mistresses as Margaret Lemon (who once tried to stab his painting hand) exhausted him. At 40, Van Dyck left England to Cromwell's Roundheads, returned to Antwerp. He had hopes of becoming Rubens' successor in the field of mythological and religious painting, but within three years he died. Had he lived longer, the crackerjack art student, playboy and plaything of society might have known disappointment ; big things were...
...Wrong." The home-towners aren't the only ones who keep solicitous tabs on Musial. Two weeks ago in Chicago, Third Baseman Tom Glaviano of the Cardinals said to Stan at breakfast: "I prayed for you last night. I got down on my knees and prayed." Impressed, Musial said he didn't realize Glaviano thought that much of him. "Don't get me wrong," explained Glaviano, "I was thinking what I could do with all that World Series dough...
Able, splenetic Sir Thomas Beecham had once disdained the Scots as "damned fools to throw away ?60,000 on a festival." But on opening night, before a jammed audience in Usher Hall, he was right there, ready, and with Franck, Sibelius, Brahms and Berlioz, he put on as good a show as ever. When he waved the men of his Royal Philharmonic to their feet on the fourth curtain call, they sat still; he howled at them in mock fury, then turned to the delighted audience: "You have observed, ladies and gentlemen, that this orchestra has every sort of virtue...