Word: two
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...relieve insomnia, go to bed an hour earlier than usual each night for two weeks, obliterate worries with pleasant thoughts of childhood...
...James W. Fesler, who could hear the weekly broadcast much better in their own front parlor (in the studio the music sounds almost as if it were being played under a blanket), make special weekly train trips to Manhattan to see the Maestro conduct in the fiery flesh. Two Buffalo newlyweds recently made Studio 8-H their Niagara Falls. One Texan chartered a plane to get there. Refugees from Central Europe spend their first two cents on U. S. soil to stamp a letter to NBC asking for passes. Bootleg passes retail at $25 a pair. Last week, when Toscanini...
Over Vienna's jitterbugs in ¾ time ruled two men with more power than the Emperor himself. They did not make Vienna's laws, but they wrote its waltzes. These two men were Johann Strauss, father & son, subjects of a joint biography (Johann Strauss, Father and Son - Greystone Press; $3.25) published last week by Viennese Exile H. E. Jacob...
Greater of the two was bewhiskered Johann II, who wrote the Blue Danube and the operetta Fledermaus. One cause of his greatness was the jealous ambition of his mother, Frau Anna Strauss. Her husband Johann, one of the doggiest of Vienna's gay dogs, transgressed (to the extent of five illegitimate children) with an attractive milliner named Emilie Trampusch. Frau Strauss kept a stiff upper lip, concentrated on making her Johann II a better man than his father. So while Johann I gadded about, Johann II composed and practiced the organ in church. His teachers, who expected...
Three weeks ago Port of New York Authority pointed out that while Manhattan's railroad freight tonnage had dropped 50% to 4,000,000 tons a year since 1919, trucking to & from the city had zoomed to the point where trucks were hauling two tons of freight to the railroads' one. So serious was this turnabout that the Authority warned motor carriers that they had better build big motortruck terminals in order to cut operating costs and reduce traffic congestion...