Word: pistoles
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Merry Wives of Windsor, there appears a cowardly braggart whose good humor and wit have endeared him to millions the world over . . . I want you to identify this genial fellow." Contestants Muriel Stetson of Rivera, Calif, and Arthur LaVove of Los Angeles, teamed together, thought a moment, then answered "Pistol." Wrong, said Groucho. "The correct answer is Falstaff...
After the show, the contestants argued the point with Comic Marx. Pistol, they insisted, was the correct answer, because Falstaff does not appear in all three plays, but Pistol does. Marx and his show directors retorted that while Falstaff does not appear in the flesh in Henry V, he is there in spirit (Act II, Scene...
...Poland at the General Assembly, rose early and departed from his hotel room for the U.N. The maid, making his bed, discovered beneath his pillow a loaded .38-caliber revolver. She called police, who, on learning the identity of the owner, suggested that Foreign Minister Skrzeszewski get a pistol permit. Headlined the irreverent New York Daily News: "GUN IN UN BIGGIE'S BED; LOUD DITHER, LITTLE ACTION." Skrzeszewski has otherwise distinguished himself in U.N. by his pleas for disarmament...
...word from Argentina's presidential palace is that Juan Perón has lately been experiencing premonitions of violent death. He has taken to carrying a pistol on the seat beside him when he goes out in a car. When he journeyed to Cordoba last month, elaborate safety precautions were taken. The official announcement said he would go by plane. But the presidential train was made ready at Buenos Aires' Retiro station, and word quickly leaked out that he was really going by rail. Then, with any would-be assassins doubly confused, he departed by yacht...
...Hermann Scherchen. a more academic conductor; his tempos are sedate, his accents concise. The orchestra of the Vienna State Opera, soloists, and the Vienna Singakademie play and sing accurately, if not thrillingly, and have been recorded with striking clarity (in the scherzo, the kettle drums go off like pistol shots). This set, like Victor's, includes Beethoven's Symphony No. I on the fourth side...