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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Canada's bid for first place in North American jet transportation began in mid-1946 when the Jetliner plans were inked onto drawing boards. Avro's general manager, Walter N. Deisher, a U.S.-born naturalized Canadian and ex-barnstorming pilot, set his men to work. What they gave him was a 60,000-lb., 822-ft.-long craft with a wing span...
Many a patient who takes penicillin in lozenges or sprays shows a marked discoloration of the tongue; most U.S. doctors have blamed the disease rather than the cure. Following up the work of doctors in Britain and India, Dr. Samuel A. Wolfson of Los Angeles came to a different conclusion: he showed that penicillin itself causes blackening of the tongue, may even cause the growth of black "hairs" up to half an inch long. Fortunately, the disorder clears up automatically after penicillin treatment is ended...
Tight-lipped Fiddler Heifetz, voluble little Pianist Rubinstein and hulking Cellist Piatigorsky had been wondering the same thing. Said Piatigorsky: "If you have one man who is very meticulous and precise, one who is more general and one who is ... ah ... melancholy, you must work very hard until you all feel [the music] together...
...June, Piatigorsky flew to Beverly Hills and joined the others in ten days of grueling practice and argument, working ten hours a day. No outside musicians were allowed to eavesdrop. Said Rubinstein: "That was the kitchen work, and you don't cook in public." In July, Piatigorsky went to the coast for a second session. Then in Chicago, they took two sessions to test Ravinia's temperamental microphones. Said Pianist Rubinstein: "With this mike, I play what is fortissimo and drown Jascha. But what should I do? Play mouse? I go crazy if I hold back...
...sang John Clare's The Driving Boy, the chorus whistled an accompaniment. Even though Britten had barely fussed at all with bridges between song poems, his symphony had a unity of spirit. Fresh, melodic and direct, his Opus 44 seemed to many listeners his best work...