Word: performer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...gesture of friendliness toward army and navy officers away from home. Lieutenant (j.g.) Stuart Cramer, former professional magieian, will perform for the children of all officers stationed at Harvard and M.I.T. next Sunday afternoon at 4 o'clock in the Hasty Pudding Club...
...ngler's biggest struggle came in 1934 when he was readying Paul Hindemith's opera Mat his der Maler for the Berlin Opera. Hindemith, a modernist, was a particular enemy of Hitler's famed musical adviser, Ernst ("Putzi") Hanfstangl. Orders came from Goring to postpone the performance indefinitely. FurtwĠngler thereupon wrote an article for the Berlin papers denouncing Nazi musical policy and claiming a free artist's right to perform whatever he liked...
Many of the details will depend on where U.S. forces end up, what duties they will still have to perform. But the program was sufficiently set to indicate that it will be much vaster in size and scope than any ever established by a post-armistice army (the World War I program gave courses to 230,000, most of whom only attended lectures at their own posts). Included are four types of schools...
Douglas retaliated by announcing that as soon as McNab vacated the premises Saskatchewan would convert Regina's $110,000 Government House into a home for the aged or for delinquent girls.* Then he had another idea: Let Ottawa instruct Saskatchewan's Chief Justice to perform the Lieutenant Governor's functions...
Chief credit for getting so much over the Hump goes to grizzled, pipe-smoking Brigadier General Thomas O. Hardin, commander of the India-China wing of the A.T.C., who has driven his pilots to perform miracles of mountain flying. But some of the miracles have been performed farther back on the war's longest supply line...