Word: pianos
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Nobody Wanted. Harry Truman began his year of triumph a sorely beset man. He was popular with almost nobody. The country grinned at the G.O.P. jeers: "Don't shoot the piano player, he's doing the best he can," "To err is Truman," "I'm just mild about Harry." Eastern wags even gibed at his farmer's habit of rising early: he did it only to have more time to put both feet in his mouth...
...took seven years for Lend an Ear to get to Broadway. It took Author Charles Gaynor 19. Ever since Dartmouth he had wanted to write big-time musicals. While he was sparring for an opening, he did such odd jobs as playing the piano at weddings and writing college songs for a Fred Waring radio program. Having now performed the rare feat of writing the music, lyrics and sketches for a hit revue (almost always a collaborators' patchwork), he is planning a musical comedy...
While they waited for the little czar to arrive, nine headliners from the Metropolitan Opera House were marking time in Victor's Studio One (formerly a horse auction barn). Some of them clustered at the piano and timidly tried out the unfamiliar words of the oldtime fox-trot I'm Just Wild About Harry. The 11½-month-old recording ban was over (see BUSINESS), and RCA Victor publicity men had chosen as Victor's first record a Christmas message for Harry Truman...
Inside, when Soprano Kirsten Flagstad, dressed in white and gold brocade, walked onstage and took her place in the curve of the piano, the jampacked audience rose to its feet and cheered her for a full minute. As she left the stage after her fourth group of songs, she tripped and fell. The audience rose again in a hush that was loud with sympathy. They cheered again when she had finished singing her program of Beethoven, Schubert and Grieg...
...said. But when she got her own emotions under control, her listeners began to lose theirs. A singer in the great bel canto tradition, she was as golden at the top of her voice as at the bottom, and as velvety in her ringing forte as in her piano. And she could move her voice around as fast as a flute...