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Word: ossip (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ever since then WWJ has been scoring radio firsts right & left. It claims to have broadcast the first play-by-play accounts of baseball and football games, World Series game (1920), prize fight, full symphony concert (with Ossip Gabrilowitsch and the Detroit Symphony). Walter Hampden, Fanny Brice, Fred Waring, Ty Cobb, Lillian Gish and Thomas E. Dewey (singing with an Owosso church choir) made their radio debuts over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Pioneer | 9/3/1945 | See Source »

...Margaret Bourke-White photos of a Russian Woman Shock Brigadier, a Moscow streetcar conductor, Stalin's great-aunt. Worcester's Museum of Natural History put on a show of Russian posters. The Public Library plugged books on Russia. The Art Museum gave a gallery to Marc Chagall, Ossip Zadkine. Boris Grigoriev. Women's clubs listened to talks on Russia; school children heard about Russia, wrote themes on Russia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Worcester & the World | 3/12/1945 | See Source »

Married. Clara Clemens Gabrilowitsch, 51, only one of Mark Twain's four daughters to survive him; and Jacques Samossoud, 53, Russian-born conductor; in Hollywood. Her husband for 27 years was Ossip Gabrilowitsch, the Detroit Symphony's Russian-born pianist-conductor, who died...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, May 22, 1944 | 5/22/1944 | See Source »

...early Victrola era, a prized record was the $7 single-sided Sextet from Lucia, sung by Caruso, Tetrazzini, Jacoby, Amato, Journet, Bada. In the hysterical years of World War I, secret service men shadowed non-Germans Leopold Stokowski, Ossip Gabrilowitsch, Leopold Godowsky. The conductor-worshiping '205 showed the most extreme faddism ("Toscanini conducting Italian nonsense could pack the hall"). In the late-lamented Flagstad epoch, Tristan & Isolde grossed $150,000 in nine performances, "thereby becoming the greatest 'hit' ever to strike Broadway...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: The U.S. Gets Musical | 3/2/1942 | See Source »

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