Word: playe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sunny New South Wales, as in Southern California, it is near-perfect tennis weather all year long. Oswald William Thomas Sidwell liked to play tennis as much as the next youngster, but figured that his real sporting future lay on a golf course. Then the war gave Billy Sidwell a chance to play tennis against G.I.s in Britain. He did so well that he decided to stick to the game. Last week all Australia had reason to be thankful...
...this point, only the incurably partisan and the bold were making any bets on who would play in the World Series...
...little man shaped like a cigar stub played a few bars on the piano, trying out his tune on his new partner. Lyricist Sammy Cahn, who used to play fiddle in a burlesque house, grunted: "It seems to me I've heard that song before." Before Tunesmith Jule Styne could think of something nasty to reply, Sammy Cahn said hastily: "I mean it's a good title -I've Heard That Song Before." According to Messrs. Styne & Cahn, this is how the title to their first hit was born. Since then most of their major decisions...
...Largo. A veteran recovers his self-respect fighting gangsters. Humphrey Bogart, Edward G. Robinson, Lionel Barrymore, Claire Trevor and others do fine work in John Huston's adaptation of a Maxwell Anderson play (TIME...
Board President Louis La Bow said the meeting had been "a pleasant social gathering . . . most interesting." But another board member was more frank. Said he: "The musicians have the gall to say-and believe-that they have had to play down to conductors for years, and that they must maintain their own high standards. I'd love to hear Beecham's reply to that . . . They're musical mobsters. They're out to have Ali Baba for a chairman-there are just 40 of them...