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...Dirt in the Blue Grass. From Daytona Beach one gallant telegraphed: "Do nothing till you hear from me. Might go as high as 12 or 13Gs." Then a man from Lexington, Ky. burned up the long distance wires, begging Dorothy to hold off until he could get up to Valley Stream. He telegraphed a $100 down payment. Dorothy described him as a horse breeder named Arthur Howard, said he was a boyish 42 and almost six feet tall. "He's got oodles of do-re-mi,'' she added softly...
Lucky Luciano, deported super-pimp of Manhattan, was having cop trouble again. Palermo (Sicily) police picked him up and quizzed him for three days about his Maffia connections. Then they let him go again till next time...
...loudly trumpeted musicals, Allegro and Inside U.S.A., reached Broadway with $500,000 or more already in the till; but far more modest musicals like Make Mine Manhattan and Angel in the Wings proved much better fun. The classics provided some rewarding evenings (Medea, Antony and Cleopatra, The Alchemist) and there was enough Shaw for a minor festival...
...Richard Strauss's Till Eulenspiegel: "An hour of original music in a lunatic asylum." On Edvard Grieg: his music gave "the charming and bizarre sensation of eating a pink bon-bon stuffed with snow." On Richard Wagner: "His impunity as a despot almost excused his imperturbable vanity." Debussy admitted that Wagner had his points: the music of Parsifal is "incomparable and bewildering, splendid and strong...
...with his imperious one-man rule, did. As such smart merchandisers as Walter Hoving (see below) and the Ford Motor Co.'s Albert Browning left, they jokingly formed the "Has-Been Club." In due time they took in 21 Ward has-been presidents and top executives. Not till Vice President Wilbur Harrington Norton, 44, became president in 1946 did Chairman Avery have someone who was ready to dish out rough treatment as well as take...