Word: ria
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Laude. In Detroit, the law caught up with 1) Tony Ria, who had flunked five exams for the police force and passed a sixth, 2) Robert Gilligan, who had taken Ria's physical for him, 3) Joseph Sakow, who had taken Ria's written exam...
...Symphony (Sun. 5 p.m., NBC). Debussy's Ibéria, Hindemith's Mathis der Maler, Wagner's Prelude to Die Meistersinger. Conductor: Fritz Reiner...
Sample details: marriage to his dramatic coach, Josephine ("He hasn't forgotten a thing I taught him") Dillon, several years his senior, ended in divorce, 1930; marriage to wealthy Texas Widow Ria Langham, also several years his senior, tnded in divorce, 1939; marriage, regarded by fan magazines as a "true love" match, to famed blon.de Cinemactress Carole Lombard, ended by her death in a Nevada air crash, January 1942. Recently Gable has squired ex-Model Anita ("The Face") Colby (TIME, Jan. 8, 1945), blonde Cinemactress Virginia Grey, and moneyed Widow Laura ("Dolly") Hylan Heminway Fleischmann O'Brien...
Debussy: Images Nos. 1 & 3 (San Francisco Symphony, Pierre Monteux conducting; Victor; 4 sides). Seldom performed, never before recorded, Debussy's Gigues and Rondes de Printemps have never been so popular as Image No. 2, better known by its subtitle Ibéria. Nor are they quite up to Ibéria as music. Performance: excellent. Recording: excellent...
...less malicious, more successful. Wrote Justice Holmes (see .p. 84) to Sir Frederick Pollock: "[It] made me laugh consumedly. . . . The writer['s] ... indecency . . . must have escaped the editors." Critic Wilson's subject: book reviewers ("What a wonderful is liquorary quiddicism! What fastiddily! . . . What unreproachable stammards and crytea-ria!"). Parodist Wilson's chief victims are "Liberary clinics Carl von Doorman, Herbert S. Goren, Gorman B. Munson...