Word: woman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Anna Roosevelt Boettiger, veteran newspaperwoman (Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Phoenix Arizona Times), currently collaborating on a radio commentary with her mother, leaped joyously back into the publishing swim as editor of the Woman, a national monthly magazine...
...voice? (The reviews next day were unanimous: "Flagstad Returns, Greater Than Ever." The Herald Tribune called her "incomparably the most distinguished of living singers." The Times spoke of "eloquence and splendor unequaled in this writer's experience.") Or was the cheering also for Kirsten Flagstad the woman-a way of saying that the past was over, that her political sins were forgiven...
...Stignani is a gay little woman who admits to being "only as old as I look" (early fortyish). The night after her concert last week, she went to dinner with Arturo Toscanini, who had listened in frowning silence to her voice when she was 20, then next day sent her a contract to sing at Milan's La Scala. At dinner, says Ebe, "Maestro was in a reminiscing mood, but he only covered the period 1898 to 1913-not my time...
When he opened his eyes, the sick and half-drowned flyer saw an old woman handing him a gourd of soothing liquid. As he recovered he came to admire the natives' simple, tight-webbed community which, unlike modern civilization, gave each of its members a secure place; yet he also had to admit that this simplified life would soon make him restless. So he left the natives and went to live with Andrew Andersen, a white planter who had remained on the island even after the Japs had set up a garrison on its other side...
...Woman's Privilege. In Savannah, Mrs. Albert W. Daughtry had her husband arrested for beating her, bailed him out, two hours later had him rearrested on the same charge, bailed him out again...