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...Shivers & Waistcoats. The Chicago Orchestral Association's directors were still not sure about that. After a series of musical fiascos in recent years, they wanted a "great" conductor to resurrect the orchestra's fame & fortune. Said one director: "The board all want him. He's a great musician, though I understand he's a little on the prima donna side. He might be hard for Eddie [Association President Edward Ryerson] to handle." There were other considerations. Said one symphony musician: "Maybe it's just as well if Furtwangler doesn't come. I understand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Chill Wind in Chicago | 1/17/1949 | See Source »

...Broadest Grin. On May 7, 1945, Jodl and his colleagues arrived at Supreme Headquarters to surrender. As Kay recalls the scene: "I felt a shiver of excitement. I shoved Telek [the General's Scotty] under the desk, commanding him not to bark. [The Nazis] marched straight by without as much as a glance . . . sour-faced, glum, erect and despicable. They came to a parade-ground halt, clicked their heels and saluted . . . General Eisenhower stood stock-still, more military than I had ever seen him. His voice was brittle." When it was over, and "the Germans half-bowed, saluted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HISTORICAL NOTES: Kay's War | 9/27/1948 | See Source »

...faithful. Somewhat later, the tinkle of a little silver bell in the darkness announced the passage of the village priest coming to perform the last rites of the church for Maria. Near midnight a cry went up: "She's sweating! She's sweating!" A deep shiver ran through the crowd. Then, above the dim hubbub of questions, a shrill exalted voice: "She's sweating blood!" "It's a miracle," screamed an old woman, "we'll have our saint." Rumors continued to flash through the dark like scratched matches: Maria was dying, she felt neither burns...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: They Did Cast Lots | 8/30/1948 | See Source »

Nine out of ten Americans who have read these and other shock-slogans of fund-raising campaigns have felt the desired shiver. The tenth, who did not, was Albert Deutsch. Mr. Deutsch, who writes a medical and social welfare column in the New York Star, finally felt annoyed. Wrote Deutsch last week: "When the whole grim truth is told, one out of every one of us dies. Period. I am disturbed by the sustained note of terror in the slogans constantly tossed at us by worthy health organizations in efforts to pry loose . . . enough dollars to fight effectively some particular...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Campaigner | 8/9/1948 | See Source »

...Clown series; Peter Lind Hayes' Genie, the Magic Record (Decca); Sterling Holloway's Uncle Remus Stories (Decca); The Little Engine That Could (Victor); Dinah Shore's Bongo (Columbia). Older kids can hear Lionel Barrymore's reading of Dickens' A Christmas Carol (MGM) or shiver to Basil Rathbone's Oliver Twist (Columbia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: New Records, Dec. 22, 1947 | 12/22/1947 | See Source »

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