Word: remarkable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Wishful anti-Perónistas seized on the last remark as proof that he was slipping. Their points: he was having trouble holding his Nationalists, Radicals and Communists together; one of his best-known labor leaders had quarreled with him; his old nationalist tub-thumper, La Tribuna, this week broke with him for getting ready to sign up with...
...opening lines as a stowaway in a barrel in the hold of the ship, to his concluding monologue announcing a fight from the ceiling of a barn, he works furiously every minute. Most of his action is ad-lib, and his Perelmanesque lines are sharp. Commenting on a remark by someone, he says: "Gee, I wish I'd said that. Everyone's repeating it around the club these days...
...Buddy Wolfe, a Negro, dropped in to a highway cafe for a cup of coffee. Deputy Sheriff John Lewis dropped in at the same time, opened the ice box and demanded to be sold four pounds of lard. Lewis thought he overheard someone in the cafe make a critical remark. In the scuffle that followed Buddy Wolfe, father of ten, went down under a blackjack, was shot thrice. Last week Lewis was also free under $2,000 bond. The charge: murder...
August is a little early to make statements to the press, so Harlow's only on-the-record remark was an expression of fatigue after four concentrated days of football talk. All of his assistant coaches--Herb Kopf, who manages the line, Bob Margarita, backfield mentor, Harry Jacunski, end coach, Al McCoy, Johnny O'Brien, who will probably handle Freshmen ends this fall, and Boston--were on hand to receive suggestions from the Varsity coach...
...Koussevitzky, who is always enthusiastic about new things in rehearsals, glowed that it was classic in form and sometimes "very near to Haydn." The Boston Symphony conductor turned often to his protege, Leonard Bernstein, to remark "Isn't it beautiful?" Bernstein thought it a bore...