Word: pitting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...necessarily typical of the daily activities of all of TIME Inc.'s string correspondents overseas, but it does serve to illustrate Mary Barber's conception-in which TIME'S editors concur-of how to cover today's news in Greece. Says she: "The journalistic snake pit of Athens is the bar of the Grande Bretagne Hotel. From there one can comfortably, if inaccurately, cover the Greek story. But to get the best copy here you have to get out into the field...
...reveals Ellen Croy, a Manhattan newspaper columnist (Elisabeth Bergner), as a driven soul, harrowed by something in her life which she can neither exorcise nor explain. The play follows her step by step, relationship by relationship-boss (Anthony Ross), husband (Millard Mitchell), old friend (John Carradine)-down into the pit. Then it slowly drags her back into the light...
Radcliffe pan-wielders are invited to pit their feminine wiles against the artistic abilities of their male competitors. The starting gun goes off at 7:30 o'clock...
...among operas. Fritz Busch, another grand old name around the Met, did a magnificent job with his orchestra. Particularly commendable was his handling of the dance scene in Act II, when three small on-stage orchestras are playing a waltz, a gavotte, and a minuet, all combined with the pit orchestra in an ingenious contrapuntal pattern. Opera orchestras are not always as skillful as they might be, but this week has shown no deficiencies along that line...
...dirt coughing blood, unable to move, and shouts of "a hundred to ten" against his chances floated through the pit. His enemy, the red, picked and kicked at him. Then, with the kind of blind tenacity that seems to excel a human's, the grey came back. Almost 40 minutes later, he won over the red. Next morning, another of Kehoe's grey muffs came back from the dead to clinch first prize ($7,000) of the Orlando tournament for Kehoe. Glowed rough, tough old John Kehoe: "Cockfighting has added ten years to my life...