Word: wente
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...India, things were not going at all well for the Maharaja of Baroda. His 250 servants went out on strike for higher wages and union recognition...
...twelve years, Frank Baxter's annual Christmas readings had become a tradition at U.S.C. A pink-faced, bouncy man who gives the readings his dramatic best, he has had enthusiastic audiences since he began. Last week he went from Dickens to Benchley, from a medieval carol ("From far away we come to you . . .") to Ogden Nash ("Epstein, Spare that Yule Log!"), to poems written by soldiers at Tobruk...
...until after World War I (where, he says, he was wounded when a case of salmon fell on his foot-"It gives me a picturesque limp on rainy days") that he went through the University of Pennsylvania and graduated summa cum laude. As soon as he could he headed for Cambridge University, there "to walk over door sills that had been worn by 600 years of students and to sit in lecture rooms where Marlowe and Milton had sat." He had long since made up his mind what his life's work would...
...York last September, shock-haired, strapping (6 ft. 2 in., 185 lbs.) Walter Hendl slapped on a cowboy Stetson and accepted appointment as an honorary deputy sheriff. In the next few days he lunched with Fan Dancer Sally Rand at the Junior Chamber of Commerce, judged a beauty contest, went to a Neiman-Marcus fashion show, played jazz piano for the girls at a local prep school and lunched with the Rotarians. For jovial New Jersey-born Hendl, it was all part of his new job as conductor of the Dallas Symphony Orchestra...
...Curtis Institute conducting fellowship with Fritz Reiner. In 1944 he was discharged from two years of Army service, during which he had led a dance band, the Jive Bombers. In the next year he wrote the music for a successful Broadway show, Dark of the Moon, and went to work as assistant conductor of the New York Philharmonic-Symphony. Impressed by his work in New York, the trustees of the Dallas orchestra offered him their conductorship...