Word: welling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...grave, no-nonsense mood befitting his years (50 this week). Undismayed that his last three plays have been failures in London, he told the New York Times: "I shall write new comedies, for I have a great wit and I am a gifted man as well as being a very hard worker...
...Higginson wrote, "gave to the orchestra its excellent habits and ideals." It was he, said Higginson, who "taught those violins to sing as violins sing in Vienna alone." Europe's greatest conductor, fiery Hungarian Artur Nikisch (1889-93) taught it how to "poetize," and perhaps he taught too well; at a rehearsal in 1904 Guest Conductor Richard Strauss growled: "You play that finely; but a little too finely. I want some roughness here." The Berlin Opera's Karl Muck (1906-08, 1912-18), wrote one critic, gave the orchestra "a living voice...
...paychecks a year from the symphony for 47 weeks of work. The size of the checks helps keep them happy too: first desk men make not less than $10,000, not including broadcasting and recording fees; no one gets less than $4,860 in salary, which is well above the A.F.M. scale...
After concerts he usually hurries out of the greenroom, nods to the waiting knot of well-wishers, then pops into his black Oldsmobile sedan for a dash home to Brush Hill Road in suburban Milton (the former home of the late Bishop William Lawrence). Only when he reaches the sanctuary of his second-story study, with Roger, his chauffeur-valet of 20 years' service hovering around him, does he seem to draw a relaxed breath...
Soon, with the help of a friend named Russell Sharp, W.P. had devised a book that seemed to be the answer. Inexpensively bound in brown paper, it was a workbook filled with simple sentences from Dickens and Longfellow as well as phrases about Sharp's pet dog Fogy. "I didn't know anything about copyright in those days," says W.P., "so I just printed in each of the books 'copyright applied for.' " Then, he began selling...