Word: raves
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Unlike the American League, which had almost no spring rookies to rave about, the National League was full of them. One even crept into the solid Cardinal lineup: Dick Sisler, (batting .443) son of the great George Sisler, pushed Ray Sanders (batting .192) off first base. After the Cardinals, the National League lineup looked like this...
...Madness), this latest mounting of a spectacle that has more tourist appeal than the Louvre or the Eiffel Tower was decidedly up to snuff. It was so glamorously dressed and undressed by turns that the critics slid right over its dull tunes and dreary gags to write rave reviews...
...Duncan, 41, has never given up hope of getting into grand opera. After teaching music and English in Louisville (Ky.) City College and Washington's Howard University, he made his operatic debut in Manhattan in an all-Negro version of Cavalleria Rusticana. George Gershwin read the rave reviews, gave Baritone Duncan the lead in Porgy and Bess. He has since sung the part more than 1,200 times. He has also made concert tours, taught singing, had a key spot in Broadway's Cabin in the Sky, floundered through a jive film called Syncopation. (Says Todd Duncan: "Hollywood...
...took a look. The mine was held by eight German civilians. Two were polite, worldly men from Berlin: 1) moonfaced Werner Vieck, a Reichsbank official; 2) pale, gaunt Dr. Paul Ortwin Rave, curator of the German state museums, assistant director of Berlin's National Gallery. They talked quite frankly about their secret, now that it was no longer secret. The mine, they said, held...
...Payroll. All this, and more, was stored in chambers 2,100 feet deep. The Americans went down, opened a few bundles of currency, looked into wooden cases that covered paintings and statues. On many cases they noted significant stencilings: Paris, Brussels, Vienna. But Curator Rave insisted that these were not stolen treasures-this store of art belonged to the Reich, had been removed from Berlin "because the Russians were pushing too close...