Word: talkers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rose North American Aviation President James Howard ("Dutch") Kindelberger, a purple talker. Before a trainload of newsmen ogling his vast Kansas City plant, he flatly accused the automakers of fumbling their part of the plane program. Said he: "After 16 months we have not yet received a single part made by the automotive industry. . . . The biggest mistake ever made was to try to break in high-production organizations to airplane-manufacturing methods. ... If they don't catch up soon we're going to start turning out the parts ourselves...
Deems Taylor is not only a charming and witty talker, a keyman in four radio programs, a highly successful scribbler of books and of introductions to other people's books; he is a composer to boot. Last week Americans were pricked into awareness of that half-forgotten fact when the enterprising Philadelphia Opera Company (TIME, Feb. 9) put on the world premiere of the first new Deems Taylor opera in eleven years, Ramuntcho...
Artur Rubinstein looks mild but he at tacks the piano with the gusto of a man who says: "I prefer to die younger than to sniff around living." In London in 1937 he recorded the 56 Chopin mazurkas at one continuous sitting. A prodigious talker, he smokes fine cigars, was for years a lady-killing bachelor ("I am 99% interested in women"). Rubinstein's bachelorhood ended nine years ago when he married Nela Mlynarski, a Lithuanian. Before she was born her father had conducted at a War saw concert whose soloist was 15-year-old Artur Rubinstein...
...control his feet or his temper, becomes a permanent resident of the camp guardhouse. His favorite chorine (Miss Hayworth) turns up at camp in the wake of an Army officer (John Hubbard). She eventually solves everything by marrying the jailbird. Comic honors go to swivel-tongued Cliff Nazarro, double-talker extraordinary, who spreads utter confusion whenever he opens his mouth. The picture is well done and well directed...
...since Lord Lothian's death have U.S. citizens heard such plain talk from a British official as they heard last week. The plain talker was big (196 Ib.) Robert Gordon Menzies, Prime Minister of Australia. Homeward bound after a 30,000-mile tour of the British Empire, fresh from ten weeks with the War Cabinet in London, the Prime Minister stepped out of the Clipper to be greeted by Australian Minister Richard Casey. Then, with no kowtowing to supposed U.S. sensibilities, he let fly with a statement on war aims, flew in a camouflaged bomber to Ottawa, returned...