Word: aaron
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...magnificent estancia on the Uruguayan side of the Rio de la Plata, across the river from Buenos Aires, Don Aaron de Anchorena held a hunting party last week. Don Aaron's father-in-law owns La Prensa of Buenos Aires, biggest newspaper in South America. His guests were two good friends, Foreign Minister Julio Argentino Roca of Argentina and Foreign Minister Alberto Guani of Uruguay. They went there, not so much to hunt as to discuss the defense of the Western Hemisphere's most strategic waterway south of the Panama Canal: the Rio de la Plata, which...
Benny Goodman wants to commission clarinet works by such contemporaries as Prokofieff, William Walton, Aaron Copland. But last week he was busy with his new orchestra. When he was ill last summer with sciatica, for which he underwent an operation at the Mayo Clinic, Goodman disbanded his men, starting rumors that he was through. The new 15-man band, now to be heard on Columbia records, has a new, richer style, which Benny Goodman says is not swing. But it is still Goodman...
...Hunt-although it denies that the Christmas card had anything to do with it. Some other Group artists who, by accident or design, have done cardworthy snowscapes, religious or convivial scenes: Emil Ganso, Doris Rosenthal, Lauren Ford, Henry Varnum Poor, Jozef Bakos, N. C. Wyeth, Aaron Bohrod, Waldo Peirce, Georges Schreiber...
...Scorner of Socialists as too nellie-nice, of Communists as too violent, is the Socialist Labor Party. Its candidate for President: John W. Aiken, Massachusetts cabinet-finisher, candidate for one political office or another ever since 1922. For Vice President: Aaron M. Orange, New York City schoolteacher...
...hard task confronting the cinema composer, that which Aaron Copland has solved so consummately, is to compose a score which fulfills the requirements of the action and at the same time stands on its own feet as a piece of music and an expression of the composer's self. Most screen scores, even the more recent ones, tend to stick pretty closely to certain standard formulae. To compose music for a comedy especially leaves little leeway for originality, although Prokofieff's comic score to Lieutenant Kije, now recorded as a separate suite, is a masterpiece of its kind. A couple...