Word: soloings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Traitor William ("Lord Haw-Haw") Joyce, 39, played chess with a warder till midnight, then went to bed in his Wandsworth cell. Chief Hangman Albert Pierrepoint, 37, made things snug for his first solo job since taking over from his Uncle Thomas, then went to bed in the prison library. At 6 Joyce rose and washed, but did not bother to shave. At the gallows Pierrepoint was waiting. Round the neck of the frozen-faced traitor, he expertly draped the noose. Then he sprang the trap...
...said of the evening. The program began with Bach's beautiful Brandenburg Concerto No. 2, and the flutist started the evening off in its continuing spirit by gurgling flatly through his first twenty-five bars. This was especially unfortunate as he was the only one of the four solo voices that could be heard over the roar of 34 violins and eight counter-basses...
Easy to Fly? Aviation Writer William Strohmeier said: less than 23% of those who start flying lessons ever solo; 56% quit after the second lesson...
...addition to participation by members of the Boston Symphony Orchestra and eminent solo artists, the Harvard Glee Club and Radcliffe Choral Society, under the leadership of G. Wallace Wood-worth '24, will give a concert performance of "Penelope," Friday evening. This constitutes the first complete rendition of the opera in this country...
Summer, 1945, promised to be no different. Most summer shows will feature second-drawer favorites, supporting play ers going solo (like Harry James for Danny Kaye, Ray Noble for Sinatra) or seasoned, borrowed troupers like Herbert Marshall, Ray Bolger, Roland Young...