Word: bleaknesses
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Their favorites, however, are the fantastic characters who have dialed the University number in the bleak stretch between two and seven in the morning. An elderly anti-vivisectionist, convinced that Harvard Medical School had stolen his Angora, tried to wheedle a confession of catnapping out of the switchboard workers. Weirder yet was the husky-voiced chap who, informed that no Biology professors were available at four-thirty A.M., startled a sleepy operator by inquiring, "Do you know of any one else, then, who would like to buy my body? I must get $10,000 at once...
...trainload of German prisoners chugged north through the Laurentians from Montreal, one day last week. One of them, a jug-eared, wiry young man, kept his nose pressed against the windowpane, his eyes on the bleak Canadian countryside. Baron. Franz von Werra, pursuit pilot with a score of 14 British planes, was a more valuable cog in the Reich's war machine than most of his fellows on the train. And he intended to get back where he belonged...
...Fire tells how Britons celebrated their second war Christmas-with bits of holly tied to barbed-wire fences, tinsel hung on gun emplacements, in basement shelters under their smoking towns. Reminiscent of the blasted countryside and ruined cities in H. G. Wells's Things to Come is the bleak, dark, stormy landscape of Christmas Under Fire. But inside are the same cheerful Britishers Quentm Reynolds, Collier's London correspondent, provides a solemn script solemnly narrated...
From the professor's unphonetic mumblings police gleaned this explanation: "I thought my powers were failing, and I could not cope with my work. Rather than expect my wife to face a bleak future I decided she should die. . . . We were so happy. I wanted her to die while she was like that. ... I thought I would also kill myself...
...earnest, nice-looking, pink-principled native of Philadelphia who was once a wonder-child at the piano, later studied composition under Nadia Boulanger and Arnold Schonberg. More than three years ago, Composer Blitzstein's opera about a steel strike, The Cradle Will Rock, was given a bleak but exciting Manhattan production, with the composer pounding a piano for lack of orchestral accompaniment. Last Sunday night, in Manhattan's Mecca Auditorium, another bleak Blitzstein opera had its opening, with the composer at the piano. No For An Answer, originally conceived as a $30,000 production, was rushed into view...