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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Louis also gained recognition of a sort. The sportwriters rated his performance against Jersey Joe Walcott as the "flop of the year." Off next month to give exhibitions in London, Joe was in for a warm reception. Thirty British Guardsmen (all about 6 ft. and 180 lbs.) have volunteered to serve as his sparring partners. Said a spokesman of the Guards: "If any of them get knocked silly-well they'll regard it as an honor...
...veteran of his own premieres, Composer Walter Piston sat halfway back in Boston's Symphony Hall. Said he to a friend: "I'll run like a deer to get backstage, and then come out as if I were very reluctant about it. ... This sort of thing makes me wonder if it's worth the trouble to write a symphony...
...Impulse. Hopper did not hit his stride until middle age, when sudden fame as an interpreter of the American scene-a sort of Theodore Dreiser in art-freed him. Nowadays, Hopper and his wife, who keeps her own painting studiously in the background, can afford a house on Cape Cod as well as their Manhattan studio apartment overlooking Washington Square...
Oysters & Brahms. From 7:30 to 8 NBC was back with music, but no image except the usual billboard giving the station's name and some more coming attractions. At 8, NBC came to life of a sort with Americana, a yeastless televersion of Information, Please...
...trouble with the first 50 pages (and with the book) is Johnny Somers, the sole exception to the pattern. Johnny, the hero, is 21, shy, inexperienced, friendly, the sort of person to whom good-natured drunks confide their life histories, because he is too reticent to relate his own, too sympathetic to shut them up, and too polite to razz them. Like Eugene Gant in Look Homeward, Angel! and like a thousand other intellectuals in American fiction, he thinks in a scrambled poetic prose-The memory of her face had the time of sunlight upon...