Word: wagnerism
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When does an employer's expression of anti-union opinions become intimidation of employes? Into one of the dimmest corners of the cavernous Wagner Act the Supreme Court last week cast a small nicker of light...
...Lieutenant Boyd D. Wagner, 25-year-old Army flyer from Pennsylvania. Five Japanese fighters attacked him over Aparri, Hawaii. He shot down two, machine-gunned twelve other Japanese planes on the ground, left five of them burning...
...chance never comes in a lifetime. But it came to short, plump-cheeked, 23-year-old Astrid Varnay-the chance to stride the stage of the Metropolitan Opera in a big part. Soprano Lotte Lehmann fell ill, Soprano Varnay donned the blond wig and nightie of Sieglinde in Wagner's Die Walküre. Though she had never appeared on any stage, she sang that hapless housewife's role with such easy assurance that critics all but ho-yo-to-hoed...
Darwin, Marx, Wagner-Jacques Barsun...
...Musical Courier's newly published letters (TIME, Nov. 3) had less to do with Meyerbeer's heelish behavior than with Wagner's hypocrisy-or worse. Let Reader Bold recall Biographer Newman's summing up of the Meyerbeer case: "There can be no doubt that he [Meyerbeer] exerted himself for Wagner both in Paris and in Berlin. . . It becomes more and more difficult to put up any defense against the oft-repeated charge against Wagner of ingratitude to his benefactors...