Word: teachers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Jose, Calif., red-haired M. Gualtieri, the best-known kindergarten teacher at Hester Grammar School, celebrated her first year of unprofitable schoolteaching by deciding to be a red-haired hat-check girl...
...Stockholm, Union Leader Yngve Moller said: "He was reactionary. This hardly appeals to a Swede. But he will likely find a credit account in heaven for the magnificence of his achievements." In Paris, the Socialists were harder on him. Said Pierre Mignot, a biology teacher: "His Taylor* system marks the beginning of modern slavery." Paris youngsters (who belong to the jeep, not the tin-Lizzie era) did not even know his name, and many an oldster shuddered at it. Said grey-haired Gaston, headwaiter at Lavrue's: " Voyez-vous, Monsieur Ford gave us speed. In the old days, Parisians...
After Evelyn Knight's first big-time broadcast (with Paul Whiteman), her singing teacher wired: "YOU NEED ME," After her second broadcast, he wired: "YOU HAVE NO MORE VOICE THAN A GOAT AND A MOUTHFUL OF CONSONANTS...
...into the act, of whom one quite frequently may be a girl named Kathryn Grayson, who sings. "It Happened in Brooklyn" has something to do with a shy ex-soldier with a great and unrequited love for the well-known borough, accompanied by an assortment of others (girl music teacher, boy piano-player, bashful songwriter), all with fervid musical ambitions. At frequent intervals they burst out into song, both separately and en masse...
...Romantic and Modern music have often been hostilely received by critics. His Ravel, and even more strikingly, his Chopin have a neat, precise touch that makes them sound almost Classical to ears accustomed to the rather hyper-poetical treatment of many better known pianists, such as his former teacher. On the other hand, his beautiful feeling for the earlier composers. Bach, Scarlatti, and Mozart--has been widely and justifiably acclaimed. He is already under contract to Columbia to record the complete works of Chopin. Also in the arduous process of reputation building is the Italian Arturo Benedetti-Michaclangelo. Although well...