Word: notes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Note of Regret. Winston Churchill, who called the White Paper an "able but melancholy document," realized with a note of regret that the Empire was, indeed, in liquidation. "No one will doubt," he said, "the sincerity and earnestness with which the Cabinet ministers and the Viceroy have labored to bring about a solution of the Indian difficulty . . . with a zeal which would be natural were it to gain an empire, not to cast it away...
...Carters' friends know them as people who stick up for their ideals, but with no note of dreary, earnest dedication about them. The townspeople respect Carter's editorial policy, even if they don't always share it. The Carters and their three sons spend summers in Rockport, Me. (Carter's idea of fun would be "to run a Republican paper in Mississippi, a Democratic paper in Maine...
...time he landed on the city desk, he was an authority on the city's clergymen and its bookies, its main streets and back alleys. As a young sports writer, he uncovered the 1919 Black Sox scandal, later got a scoop on the Lindbergh kidnaping ransom note. Unlike the city editors of fiction, he is full of sweet 'reasonableness with his admiring staff of "Reutlinger's Rats...
...best performance last week was that of a mute who didn't sing a note. This week Menotti's seven-year-old opera bouffe, The Old Maid and the Thief (TIME, May 1, 1939) is to be sung to beer and hot dogs at a Carnegie Hall pop concert. Next month, Menotti will sail for Europe to visit Milan, his home town, and do research in Paris for a ballet about Marcel Proust. He lives at Mt. Kisco, N.Y. in a glistening glass and wood house called "Capricorn," with Symphonist Samuel Barber, an aspiring poet named Robert Horan...
Only encouraging note in Bigart's report was the fact that it was sent, uncensored, from behind the Iron Curtain...