Word: shapely
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Fitting Finish. Outwardly the orchestrators are reverent toward the composers whose work they are hired to pull into shape. But sometimes it takes a lot of pulling. Fats Waller, for example, gave Walker little more than some snatches of melody jotted on the backs of a couple of envelopes. But sometimes apparent trouble is easy to solve. While working on George Abbott's Best Foot Forward, Walker was approached by Gene Kelly, who staged the dances for the show. Kelly had definite ideas. Roared he: "The orchestra should go de-bump-bump-bump, wha-ah, crash, zip, bang...
...still likes to go to prize fights, and swears he could tell, from the way Joe Louis was sweating the night he entered the ring against Billy Conn, that the champion was in poor shape and would have trouble winning. And he correctly guessed that Joe Louis would torpedo Lou Nova in the sixth round. Baruch watches all human affairs with his speculator's eye, studying the form, trying to guess the result. And when he is sure, he plunges, with the audacity and icy conviction of a big-time speculator...
...world skirmished, probed and par ried. South of Moscow, in the sector where the biggest forces were concentrated, a few Russian battalions seized four German positions. A few German battalions tried & failed to recapture the positions, and to that small extent the Red Army was in better shape to break a major German offensive, or to launch one of its own. Both the Luftwaffe and the Red Air Force, for the first time in the Russian war, turned their main energies to strategic bombing behind the battle lines. The Russians struck at German airdromes, supply trains and supply dumps...
...shape and allegiance of the army of liberation was the crucial problem last week in Algiers. General Charles de Gaulle had stood adamantly for: 1) a purge of ex-Vichyite officers; 2) a modernization of the armed forces along the lines he had vainly preached .for two decades before the fall of France. General Henri Honore Giraud had agreed in principle, but he wanted control of the scope and tempo of reform. Over these issues the negotiations deadlocked while the Generals kept apart. Then, one evening in the quiet of his home, General Georges Catroux brought De Gaulle and Giraud...
...surface it was a battle of personalities: two generals contending for the role of first fiddler. But the same contest was settling the future shape of France...