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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...native Italy, Rospigliosi is the kind of correspondent TIME likes to have to round out any well-organized news bureau. His father was Italian, his mother American; he was educated in Florence and was graduated from Cambridge University in 1929. He speaks Italian, German, French and English fluently, and knows Italy like the back of his hand. He was working for International News Service in Rome when America went to war, and was promptly arrested by the police and interned as an "antinational" at Perugia. Later, he escaped, spent a winter in the hills outside Rome, made it through...
Before setting off with wife Eleanor Holm on a four-month round-the-world tour, Columnist Billy Rose explained: "My world has been bounded by the flea circus on 42nd Street and the statue up at Columbus Circle, and I figure it can do my perspective nothing but good to take a hinge at how the other 99.9 percent lives...
...wasn't his old self off the tees, and in the third day's round a gasp of disbelief went up from his gallery when he took four putts on the 15th green. Hogan did not blame the climate. He said merely, "Hell, I'm just not playing golf." In the final round, Ben finally found his touch with a one-under-par 70, but by then it was too late...
Going into the last round, four men were tied for the lead-Lloyd ("Mustache") Mangrum, Jimmy ("Smiles") Demaret, Eric Monti and Leland Gibson. The first to crack in the stretch was Monti, then Demaret. The winner (wearing pajamas under his golf slacks to keep warm): Mangrum, with an even-par 284. Tied for tenth, with 292, was Ben Hogan, 1948's golfer-of-the-year...
After Bach comes a program of Beethoven, followed by post-Beethoven music and requests. Gilbert and Sullivan will glut the air waves on Saturday night, and Sunday morning ushers in a ballad corner catering to hillbilly fans. When the merry-go-round will cease had not been decided...