Word: nine
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...plump, stubby and explosive fellow on the podium, he took over the Cincinnati Symphony from famed Eugene Ysaÿe, gave it nine of the best years of its life. In Pittsburgh, which he quit last spring after a fight over managerial economies, he was known as a martinet who knew how to command good music. But all these years Fritz Reiner has been hankering for his old love. "A conductor must conduct opera," he says. "His life is not complete unless he does...
Died. Ted Horn, 38, veteran auto racer, three times American Automobile Association national champion (1946-48), who was never behind fourth for nine straight years at Indianapolis, but never won; of injuries suffered in a race in Du Quoin...
...wardrobe cost alone for 20th Century-Fox's Prince of Foxes hit $275,000 -or about nine times what it took to pro duce both Open City and Shoeshine...
...selfseeking Virginian has ruthlessly kicked Washington, the Eagle Scout who could not tell a lie, off his pedestal for keeps. Most men of Washington's rank, writes Freeman, "considered him ambitious and not particularly likable or conspicuously able . . ." Washington's favorite disciplinarian was the cat-o'-nine-tails: 25 lashes for profanity, 100 for drunkenness. His letters to superiors were often fawning, too prone to dwell on his own belief that he was "open and honest and free from guile...
...Well, my boy," muttered the tired cop, "is it nine o'clock in New Haven or a ten in Cambridge...