Word: writings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...heels of Amelia's, success, NBC officials commissioned Composer Menotti to write another opera, this time for the radio. Composer Menotti accepted the commission, but took his time about writing the opera. To the annoyance of NBC's program arrangers, it was not until last fortnight that Menotti put the finishing touches to his score. Last week the new radio opera had its world première, on the Saturday night "Toscanini Hour...
Author of most of the Telegram's weather stories is a thin, sharp-featured little man named Harry Allen Smith.* Raised in Huntington, Ind., he quit school after the eighth grade to work as a proofreader on the local paper, rose to write funeral notices, sports, a column. Smith saw the U. S. as an itinerant reporter, worked five years for United Press as a feature writer, landed on the Telegram three years ago. He once began an interview with Cinemactress Simone Simon thus: "Your reporter walked straight up to her, without so much as a hello, and tickled...
Reporter Smith writes weather stories only when he feels like it. Other staff members write them occasionally. But an authentic Smith can generally be recognized by its cockeyed quality and an underlying mood of ennui, as in this example...
...said] if we were ever obliged to write a closed shop contract . . . that the New York Times would be for sale, because I did not believe it would be possible to get out an honest newspaper under these conditions, and that I did not want to be associated with any other kind...
...funniest U. S. expatriate. Still arrogant, shrill, red-bearded, he readily announced: "I came over only because I'm curious. ... I regard the literature of social significance as of no significance. It is pseudo-pink blah. . . . The best practical economic stuff is being written in Italy today. Men write there for audiences of 500 or 600, say what they want and make sense...