Word: pasts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When a symphony orchestra has been slapped around by a heavyweight conductor for a few seasons, it gets very proud of its bumps and bruises. When the top-flight conductor resigns, and a bantamweight takes his place, the orchestra is apt to sulk. In the past few years two of the finest U. S. symphony orchestras have had this letdown: Manhattan's Philharmonic-Symphony (Toscanini to Barbirolli); the Philadelphia Orchestra (Stokowski to Eugene Ormandy). The Philharmonikers have kept a stiff upper lip, but the Philadelphians, after brooding and glooming for a whole season, last week broke...
...weather. So last fall the operators pulled up their socks and determined to lick this factor in 1938-39. They did. During the 1938-39 winter, not a single airliner crashed because of weather. But other troubles reared their ugly heads. Two of the three crashes of the past five months, it was officially revealed last week, were due to mechanical failure. The third was United's West Coast mishap, due to egregious pilot error (TIME, March...
...week, however, thanks to 20 years of rummaging by an enthusiastic Manhattan hobbyist named Robert Vincent, every town and hamlet within range of 34 local radio stations in the U. S. and several in Australia, might have heard the voices that Edison and others recorded speaking scratchily from the past. Set in modern, radio-dramatized transcriptions under titles like Voices of Yesterday, History Speaks, etc., the old recordings recapture moments calculated to stir the memories of oldsters and give youngsters shivery earfuls from beyond the grave...
Idaho. It was 2:30 on a Sunday morning in quiet Nampa, Idaho. Straight down Third Street South, past the Pacific Fruit Express yards, a car raced at 70 m.p.h. It slowed to turn left on Eleventh Avenue, sailed past the historic Dewey Palace Hotel before State traffic officers caught it, arrested Vardis Fisher, 44, impassioned Idaho novelist. Writing an impassioned account for the Idaho Statesman, Author Fisher said he was taken to jail, told to put his heels together, hold his head back, and close his eyes, to determine if he was drunk, was then locked in a verminous...
...runaway schoolboy to writer, to revolutionist, while Antoine, sober, good-natured, plodding, grows in understanding as his professional skill increases. He falls in love with Rachel and finally, through the haze of the lies she tells him about herself, begins to understand her sulphurous, vicious, pathetic, vice-ridden past and future. Still to be translated is Summer 1914 (a book as long as Gone With the Wind), which carries the fate of Jacques and Antoine...