Word: pauls
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Controls kept coming off-margarine, mayonnaise, shortening and coffee. OPA Administrator Paul Porter said that he was preparing a big cut in his staff of 35,000, and that the whole decontrol program had been moved up two months, to Nov. 1. After the first of the year, price lids would remain on autos, building materials, refrigerators, furniture, sugar, basic clothing items, farm machinery and rents...
...King George VI's orders, they got a much mellower substitute stanza, although the first and fourth lines still had a shade of condescension. Appropriately enough, the new verse's first official appearance was at a national service of intercession for the United Nations in St. Paul's Cathedral, with the King, Queen and Clement Attlee heading the congregation : Nor on this land alone -But be God's mercies known From shore to shore. Lord, make the nations see That men should brothers be, And form one family The wide world...
...hymnology this was a considerable improvement, but the services at St. Paul's were more memorable for a really impressive prose passage from the Archbishop of Canterbury's sermon...
Jazz without Labels. For short, smiling Joe Mooney, 35, it was a sweet triumph. He had played piano in a dozen forgotten bands, arranged music for Fats Waller, Jane Froman, Jack Teagarden, Paul Whiteman. In 1935, he bet someone that an accordion could be made to swing, learned to play the thing and became accordionist in Whiteman's band. Then in 1943 an auto accident put him in a cast for 18 months, left him with a permanent limp. Last March he rounded up Clarinetist Andy Fitzgerald, Guitarist Jack Hotop and Bass Player Gate Frega, sold them...
...Duchess of Malfi (by John Webster; adapted by W. H. Auden; produced by Paul Czinner), though one of the most famous of Elizabethan dramas, received its first Broadway production in 88 years. From a theatrical standpoint, there were possibly reasons to explain the delay. For all its magnificent flashes of drama and snatches of poetry, The Duchess moves slowly, mounts uncertainly, lets its fire go out between quick, bright blazes. It lacks, too, the humanity that a Shakespeare could fuse with horror; Webster's tale of the rich, widowed young Duchess who remarries in secret, fearing her rapacious brothers...