Word: olga
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fortnight he virtually lived in Studio 9, on call 15 hours a day. He slept at the nearby Harvard Club (his Brooklyn home was too far away) or in his office across the hall from the studio itself. His blue-eyed wife. Baroness Olga von Norden-flycht, brought hot food and coffee to his desk, occasionally led him outdoors for a walk and fresh air. His earliest broadcast was at 5 a. m., his latest at 11 p. m. After each talk he received a batch of letters. Their gist: in times of stress, listeners prefer conclusions and even bias...
...Monday last week a sandaled peasant woman wandered into an abandoned garage and found the body of an 8-year-old girl, Olga Comacho, daughter of a bartender. Her throat was slashed. She had been ravished while returning from the village meat market. Through all the flyspecked rabbit warrens of Tijuana the news spread and quickly more news followed: a soldier from the garrison had been caught with the package of meat Olga Comacho was bringing home...
...turns the morning singing hour of the Colvin School for Girls into a swing session. Sent home to the jittery bosom of a family infected with the slightly threadbare lunacy which has been bothering recent cinema families, she croons her way to a career with the help of Olga, a screwball maid (Fanny Brice), and Ricky (Allan Jones), a singing chef. Best of the Kaper-Jurmann tunes: Swing, Mr. Mendelssohn. Best Fanny Brice number: Quainty Dainty Me with her famed spirit-of-spring technique...
Sirs: Who is Evangeline Brewster Johnson Stokowski [TIME, Dec. 13] ? I was under the impression that Leopold Stokowski was married to Olga Samaroff...
...Conductor Stokowski was married to Pianist Olga Samaroff who bore him one daughter, divorced him twelve years later. In January 1926 he was married to Evangeline Brewster Johnson, surgical manufacturer's daughter, who bore him two daughters, divorced him last month (TIME...