Word: superbeings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...good breaks seem to come to him, but he works hard at his jobs. At West Point he boned for the air service, graduated 240th in his 1923 class of 261, made the air grade by reason of his superb physical condition (he is a lithe 165-pounder), became one of the Army's crack attack pilots and instructors. He met his wife at a West Point hop. They have a son, 16, who wants to go to the Academy, and a daughter...
...Department of English at Boston College, is not a conventional biography of Thompson. It is a simple, straightforward record of Father Connolly's pilgrimage to the places in England where Thompson lived and suffered. Its chief merit is its warm picture of English Catholic life, beginning with a superb portrait of Wilfred Meynell (now 92) at home among his Thompson mementos...
Beginning easily and swiftly, the motion picture builds up terrific tension. The film version of the actual raid is a superb bit of realistic and powerful drama. The action after the bombing is unavoidably anti-climactic, but the crashed fliers' struggle to evade the Japanese, and Lawson's fight to live and return to his wife give the account fullness, and make war an intensely personal business...
...classic auditorium, the San Francisco Opera last week opened its 22nd season with Aïda. A capacity house was pardonably proud, from the cheering galleries to the McNears, Ehrmans and Fleishhackers in their beige and gilt boxes. A roster of the finest stars (many from the Metropolitan), a superb orchestra (the San Francisco Symphony) and a well trained municipal chorus would present four weeks of repertory as elegant as any city could boast. Then the company would move down to Los Angeles, where it would give a Hollywood-studded audience the only really grand opera Los Angeles ever hears...
Wagner: Tristan & Isolde, Excerpts from Act III (Lauritz Melchior and Herbert Janssen with the orchestra of the Colon Opera, Buenos Aires, and the Columbia Opera Orchestra, Roberto Kinsky and Erich Leinsdorf, conductors; Columbia; 10 sides). A superb slice of Tristan's last act, including almost everything except the famed Liebestod (which is separately available). Melchior, greatest of living Tristans, sings his mad scene as though he meant it. Recording: excellent...