Word: two
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Since Portia is always on the air-five days a week, 52 weeks out of the year-Mona Kent had to lead a double life to get her novel written. For two weeks at a time she would concentrate on her radio show and get far enough ahead so that she could put in one week's work on the book. As a result: "The novel's slick, too, in places. Whenever I got to a dramatic point I found myself letting go with everything I learned in soap opera...
...past two months, as they have each summer since the war, modern Romans and visitors have been swarming out to the Baths of Caracalla, but for a different reason. Three hundred and fifty thousand strong, they have gone to the majestic reddish brick ruins to see Rome's summer opera, one of the most dazzling sights, if not sounds, in the world...
...Mendelssohns' silver wedding anniversary, and their 20-year-old son Felix had put aside ideas for his third ("Scotch") symphony to fashion a little drawing-room-sized operetta for the happy occasion. It was to be sung by the Mendelssohn daughters, Fanny and Rebecka, two friends of the family, and Fanny's husband, Painter Wilhelm Hensel. Since Hensel had no ear for music, Felix had given him only one note in a trio. When the great day came, wrote one of the more musical friends, Memoirist Eduard Devrient, "[Hensel was] not able to catch the note, though...
...strange coming from Schroeder, a high-strung will-to-winner who frequently ate 4 a.m. breakfasts because he couldn't sleep the night before a big match. At 28, he decided he had conquered all the tennis worlds worth conquering. Before he won the British title at Wimbledon two months ago, he thought of turning pro; later he changed his mind, decided to stick to his amateur standing and his year-round job with a California refrigerator company-and relaxed...
...last day, as amazed as anybody at their success, two dark horses met as finalists. Rufus King and Charlie Coe had grown up nine miles from each other across the Texas-Oklahoma line, but were playing golf together for the first time...