Word: playe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Berlin for months. Some experts in Washington now believed that the volume transported could be greatly increased and that Berlin could even be supplied with coal through the winter. The operation would be fantastically expensive, but worth it, politically. The Berlin lift was a kind of 20th Century miracle play representing both the West's humanitarian purpose and its military strength. Said a high-ranking U.S. air officer last week: "A year's supply of Berlin would be cheap compared...
Politically, they were both militant liberals then (Bartók refused a decoration from the Admiral Horthy regime). Today Kodály is content to play along with the Communist government. Although he says he is not a party member, he composes little nowadays because so much of his time is taken up as president of Hungary's Arts Council, Academy of Sciences, and Academy of Music, and as a member of Parliament. Once a sandaled Bohemian, he is now one of Budapest's most elegant dressers, lives in fashionable Andrássy Ut. This fall in London...
...determined to form a quartet of their own. The four-Violinists Sidney Griller and Jack O'Brien, Cellist Colin Hampton and Violist Philip Burton-decided over a pint of beer that the way to become a quartet was to live together, break all family ties, refuse engagements to play separately...
...money they made bought them a year of rehearsal time. They played whenever & wherever they could, giving concerts in barns, corn exchanges and the homes of friends. They finally got to play the Mendelssohn Octet with the Pro Arte String Quartet ("they were the gods"). Says Griller: "We had terrific competition-the Budapest, the Busch, all the finest. But we worked our way, rather like worms." For a while they did not even have a name. "I had gone over to Ireland to visit my girl. When I got back, the other three told me they...
...Satchel pitched in 42 games, won 31, lost four. In 1936 he pitched (and won) five games in one week. His idolizing Negro fans expect him to play in every game. Satchel once pitched a no-hitter in Pittsburgh, drove all night to Chicago, shut out another team in twelve innings next day. Pitching for the Kansas City Monarchs in the 1942 Negro World Series, Showoff Satchel purposely passed a man to get Catcher Josh Gibson (Negro baseball's Babe Ruth) at bat, then forced him to send...