Word: quartetting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...smiles, good humor and friendliness during the first three days of the Big Four meeting in Paris. The mood carried over into the working week's one big social interlude-a state dinner given by French President Vincent Auriol for 40 top delegates and their wives. A military quartet played Debussy. Everybody wore evening clothes except Vishinsky, who showed up in a dark blue lounge suit. One of his aides apologized: "We worked so hard up to the last minute, the Minister had time only to change his shirt. We are always working, you know. In that respect...
...Quartet. Four lively vignettes of Britons at home & abroad; from the Somerset Maugham short stories (TIME...
Discords in the Wings. All four (average age: "near 35") are married, and even their wives and kids get along harmoniously. There is a "fifth member" of the quartet, who, as far as the playing members are concerned, is currently making discords in the wings. Since January, the pianists have been trying to get out of their contracts with Manager Edwin Fadiman (Clifton's brother), who, they claim, gets too big a cut of the receipts. The receipts were nothing to trifle with; last year the quartet made close to $240,000 in concert tours, radio and recordings...
...blue, as they had been in his original attack. Then Mrs. Harrison, a schoolteacher who has learned practical psychology by handling 4-B children, confessed that she had only pretended to call the doctor. Harrison now recognizes his own neurotic symptoms, but he has not played the Mozart quartet since that October evening a year and a half...
...Quartet. Four lively vignettes of Britons at home & abroad; from the Somerset Maugham short stories (TIME...