Word: tested
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Come Snobs." Polish Pianist Artur Rubinstein, visiting Rio, decided to trick her into playing again. He invited her to Rio's empty Municipal Opera House, asked her to play some chords so he might test the acoustics. She sat down at the piano at 2:30, played until 8. Said she: "It was a put-up job." She played three years in Latin America, earning enough to pay her way to the U.S., and the $1,400 that a Carnegie debut cost...
Pressagent Russell Birdwell got in early with a stop-the-atom-bomb-test editorial for which the Military Order of the Purple Heart bought the space, giving Copywriter Birdwell a mammoth byline. Headline: WHERE ARE WE GOING? Hapless newspaper and magazine executives only wished they knew...
...stratosphere balloon, coolly waited for the bag to get low enough so that he could breathe when he parachuted. In World War II, Billy Kepner became chief of the Eighth Air Force Fighter Command. He is now deputy commander for air in Operations Crossroads (the Bikini atom test, postponed last week-see NATIONAL AFFAIRS...
...Proving Ground. The test of the experiment was the conference on the military truce, in which the Special Envoy sat as chairman and mediator. On his left was General Chou Enlai, the Communists' veteran No. 1 negotiator; on his right was General Chang Chun, the Government's progressive-minded governor of Szechwan. There was a variation in this setup during the conference on military reorganization. Then Marshall sat only as adviser. General Chou spoke for the Communists; General Chang Chih-chung, onetime aide-de-camp to Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek, carried on for the Government...
...favorite role (Rigoletto) with the Connecticut Opera Company in Hartford. Even so, before his Town Hall recital last week he passed a nervous day. Said he: "To stay in good shape I remain in bed all the day. I get up and drink very strong coffee, do exercises. I test my voice. It is all right. I dress up, go to hall, stay there one-half hour in armchair...