Word: teached
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...almost an absurdity to expect anyone to write for a newspaper the very morning after one of those glorious all night stands in Winchester. But if our supply teacher can show up and proceed to try to teach what remains of the class (e.g., Bob Brocker's now asleep in the second row) we can try, too. Further more, "Broomie" made it on time, too, and if he can still fight the war after Tuesday night, anyone can. But we do note, alas, that, "Papp" Dye couldn't make it the morning after. Congratulations to the hosts if, unlike Brocker...
...TIME editors look with loathing on the idea that we hold classes to teach our writers "TIME style." (Some people seem to think we do.) Many a man wanting to write for TIME has been turned down because samples of his work showed he was an imitator of TIME -as he imagined it -instead of a writer of direct, vivid, sense-making English...
When Joseph Schillinger, an energetic little Russian, bustled into the U.S. to teach his "scientific method" of music composition, he hit it just right. The harassed jazz composers and arrangers on the frenzied production lines of Tin Pan Alley, Hollywood and the radio studios were looking for somebody just like him. George Gershwin became a steady customer; so did his buddy, Oscar Levant. Soon many able musicians (Jesse Crawford, Benny Goodman, Vernon Duke) were juggling rhythms and harmonies into endless combinations. Long-haired music schools eschewed Schillinger and all his works: their students had plenty of time to court...
...just raising a barrier between us and them." "Listen," said the other soldier, "you got the wrong slant. All a soldier wants is a little fun. The order doesn't seem to make sense but I can see some reason for it. ... We've got to teach these Germans that we're the boss now, and if you go around fraternizing then they have influence over you and how are you going to govern them...
Irene Dunne, who wanted to teach music before she became a cinecomedienne, was made an honorary Doctor of Music by the Chicago Musical College...