Word: sirens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Maestro was playing the piano when the telephone rang. He was so absorbed in the Beethoven concerto that he positively refused to recognize this foreign noise-but for me it was like trying to ignore a fire siren. Toscanini kept right on playing, and I was certainly going to continue as long as he did, but I could feel the pressure, the temperature rising. Any second, something had to explode...
...getting a divorce, and called by Hollywood columnists "The Sad Siren," Cinemactress Elizabeth Taylor found that she had lost her appetite, was tense before mealtime, and suffered after-eating aches & pains. Said her doctor: a clear case of incipient ulcers...
Died. Olga Nethersole, 80, British stage star of the turn of the century; in Bournemouth, England. Noted for her siren roles ("the Nethersole kiss"), she was hauled off to a Manhattan court in 1900 (but cleared) for her then shocking Sapho...
Married. Ruth Roman, 26, cinema siren (Champion); and Mortimer Hall, 26, who works for Los Angeles' radio station KLAC, owned by his mother, New York Post Publisher Dorothy Schiff; in Las Vegas...
Ohio's business-farm trucks, oil trucks, family sedans-buzzed by. In the town of Nevada (pop. 1,000), a mile-long Pennsylvania freight train supplied a thunderous overtone. In tiny Wharton, a siren shrieked and a fire truck rattled past the speaker, slowing down to let four of Taft's 40 listeners jump on. "Maybe it's just a Democratic plot," said Taft dryly, and went on talking. Nothing stopped him, nothing could stop him short of a bolt of lightning...