Word: overnight
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...then more famous for its blatant baseball than its Bach, Beethoven and Brahms, Brooklyn tried a professional orchestra once more. Asked to guest-conduct, famed Sir Thomas Beecham accepted with a crusty warning: "I am not prepared to transform your community overnight into a center of art and enlightenment . . ." In World War II, so many players were drafted that the orchestra collapsed again...
...Compton, who will make the opening day keynote address at the Convocation next Thursday, issued the statement to the press on a recent overnight visit to the Institute...
Boats. Manhattan's Bilnor Corp. put on the market a new collapsible Vinylite boat, small enough, when not inflated, to be carried in an overnight bag. Blown up, the boat will carry up to an adult and five children (see cut), can be paddled like a canoe. Prices: $10 (56 in. long...
...necessity. American friends in Moscow saw her come home from these trips and break down weeping. But for all her disappointments in Communism, she clung to it. Of the collectives which had horrified her, she actually wrote: "One hundred million of the world's most backward peasants almost overnight [swung] into ultra-modern farming . . . Their increased income [was] translatable into silk dresses, perfumes, musical instruments...
...famous Army types are present, and all of them are beautiful played. The overworked and woman-ridden First Sergeant wants, desperately to get away from his morning reports and into combat. A baboon-like, whistle-blowing platoon sergeant wants to know the purpose of overnight passes, because "any fool knows it takes more than a coupla hours to make any decent broad." The company commander suffers terribly because his wife, who plays bridge with the adjutant's wife, always knows what is going to happen before he does. The eternal yardbird, the eager second lieutenant, the PX floozie...