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...talent yardstick showed Toronto stronger than last year. Dave ("Sweeney") Schriner had come out of retirement to score 19 goals and 16 assists in seven games and give the Maple Leafs' first line the lift it needed. Montreal, although it had lost veteran Center Phil Watson and two of its top defensemen, Mike McMahon and Gerry Hefferman disqualified by a new league rule barring players who work in essential war industry, was still close to prewar big-league hockey standards. That was scarcely true of the league's four U.S. teams: Detroit, Chicago, Boston, New York-who might...
...voice that this generation of U.S. operagoers is familiar with is the neat, flutelike warbling of Lily Pons. She is the capable but hardly startling descendant of a great line beginning with Jenny Lind and including Adelina Patti, Nellie Melba, Luisa Tetrazzini, Amelita Galli-Curci. Measuring Korjus against the yardstick of their memories, old-timers placed her somewhere near the Pons mark, admired the warmth, vibrancy and agility of her voice, which reminded them slightly of Melba...
...personalities like Grace Moore are not to be reckoned entirely by the operatic yardstick. As she herself states with typical candor: "There may be some who will still say it isn't [a great voice]. But I do have a voice that has made people listen, that seemed to make people happy and exhilarated." With all her faults, she remains one of the few divas since the retirement of Maria Jeritza and Mary Garden who can cause dramatic excitement merely by walking onto the stage...
...Governor. Earl Warren brought as much life to California's government as his family did to the mansion. Californians, looking at his first-year record, had to go back to the turbulent first year of Hiram Johnson's administration (1911-17) to find a yardstick by which to measure their new governor. Warren has yet to equal Johnson but he has chalked up some solid accomplishments...
When buttermen refused to sell at his prices, he imported Argentine butter and sold it at low prices until he broke them down. When cheap cloth got scarce, he compelled all cotton mills to produce one tenth of their export cloth in popular styles, had the goods sold at "yardstick" prices through portable street stores. They were mobbed by pushing housewives, and soon cloth prices in regular stores went down. In some cases of speculation or hoarding, he turned to outright requisition...