Word: versions
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Most of the defendants were old hands at fighting Government charges and they had their countercharges ready. The indictments, they shouted, were "a monstrous frame-up ... an American version of the Reichstag fire ... a domestic counterpart of the criminal bipartisan attempts to turn the war in Berlin from cold to hot." They were timed, they said, to embarrass Henry Wallace's convention in Philadelphia (see Third Parties...
...went well the first two days; then Manhattan had a hot spell and practically nobody came. The union got nervous about its musicians' pay, and on the fourth day, just as Benny Goodman was going on to tootle a clarinet version of Debussy's Rhapsody for Saxophone and Orchestra, the union called its men off the job. Dorati, who had sat up half the night studying Debussy's score on a plane from Chicago (he had flown out the night before to conduct in Chicago's Grant Park), took the bad news with a good nature...
...more reporters popped the question, and were brushed aside. Then a paunchy, scowling ex-sportwriter tried his hand. His own version of what happened next: "... A tall, not unhandsome chap arose, a man of spiritual mien and prematurely grey, arose to declare: 'My name is Westbrook Pegler, Mr. Wallace . . . You have reminded us journalists of the important duty of getting all the available facts. Therefore, I ask you to say whether you did or did not write certain letters...
Nelson ("The Doc") Hume had started the school himself, and for 33 years had been its headmaster. Canterbury School, on a hill above New Milford, Conn., blossomed into a tony Roman Catholic version of Groton and St. Mark's. Its ambition was to turn out Catholic boys for Ivy League colleges, without neglecting their religious training. There were no monks or priests about: Canterbury calls itself the only Catholic prep school in the U.S. run exclusively by laymen. Doc Hume, an imposing, bushy-browed man of booming voice, taught the boys apologetics and Christian ethics and led them...
...This Is New York. A deftly daffy screen version of Ring Lardner's The Big Town, with radio's Henry Morgan (TIME...