Word: ten
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Twenty months ago, sadfaced, crew-cropped Violinist Jascha Heifetz cast up his accounts. At 46, he had logged nearly 100,000 hours on his fiddle ("the equivalent of practically ten years of playing 24 hours a day") and traveled almost 2,000,000 miles. He was, he decided, long overdue for an overhaul. At the end of his season, he called off all concert fiddling, except a few radio broadcasts, "to give both myself and the public a break...
Would he take more sabbaticals? "Maybe another in ten years-but then it might be high time to quit for good...
...After a ten-day police hunt last July, a handy man in Baltimore confessed the murder of two eleven-year-old girls. Anywhere else in the U.S., it would have been Page One news. But not in Baltimore. There, judges of the Supreme Bench have a rule forbidding stories on confessions in local cases, because they think it might prejudice the defendant's right to an impartial trial. In the nine years in which Rule 904 has been in force the press has never seriously challenged it. When in doubt, an editor usually calls up a judge...
...After some thought, restorers, under the direction of Florence's Professor Bruno Bearzi, dissolved the statue's lumpy green shell, showed the gilded bronze beneath. Last week San Ludovico stood on his pedestal again in a Manhattan gallery where visitors paid 60? a head to see the ten-foot figure blaze under spotlights in a black-velvet niche...
...wanted to give the contract to a U.S. firm; they said they felt that replacement parts might be hard to get in event of war. Brown Boveri promptly pointed out that it could retaliate: it had bought more than $2,000,000 worth of U.S. equipment in the last ten months-more than a third of it from Ohio manufacturers. The city decided to give it the contract...