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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Nothing but an early and profound change in the attitude of the British people toward the problem of national survival can prevent the present crisis from becoming a steady slide into conditions of poverty unknown in the Western world in modern times...
With Fellow Composer Samuel Barber, Poet Robert Horan and a cocker spaniel, he lives in Mt. Kisco, N.Y. He is still an Italian citizen, but except for Amelia Goes to the Ball, his work is almost unknown in his native Italy. When the war came Mussolini's censors put Menotti on the forbidden list. Anyway, opera like The Telephone wouldn't be grand enough. Says Menotti: "In Italy they hate chamber opera. They like to have about 500 people in the cast...
...unreligious society there is no cessation of judgment as to what is right and what is wrong. Such judgments are made, however, not out of fear of some mysterious supernatural unknown, but for the sake of the right action itself...
...hottest thing in professional basketball, Joe Fulks was an unknown at the season's start. He had played a little in high school and college in Kentucky, but really learned how to find the hoop in three years on a service team. On the Philadelphia Warriors, he set a pro record of 41 points in one game. He is now the league's leading scorer by a comfortable 400 points...
...geologists with Rear Admiral Richard Byrd, who feels responsible for Antarctica, are more imaginative. Somewhere in Antarctica's forbidding interior, they speculated, there may be a hidden valley heated to tropical balminess by volcanic energy. There-just possibly-unknown fauna may be nibbling at unknown flora...