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Advance Payment. But Matusow's popularity soon began to wane. At social gatherings he was a braggart and a bore. His only talents were telling involved dirty stories and twisting pipe cleaners into animal-like figures, e.g., he made a little kangaroo and named it Billie-Bunk. When the novelty and profits of his career wore off, Matusow sulked. Moreover, anti-Communist investigators began-although not soon enough-to distrust him. The FBI now says that it dropped him in 1950-yet Matusow was permitted to testify at great length (some 700 pages in the record) in the Government...
...poor diction and breathy tone, the Glee Club's sound was nearly always pale in upper voices and muddy in the bass. These failings actually enhanced the plain chant Te Lucis, but consistently spoiled the music of later composers. Even Charpentier's lovely Magnificat almost became an insipid bore--despite the excellence of violinists John Goodkind and John Barson, and Harvard cellist Stephen McGhee. After a mediocre Schubert cantata, the visitors offered a Bacchanals from Offenbach's La Belle Helene. At its close, Mr. Ludington did a little dance and several singers made Chevaliertype faces. The mugging was almost...
...audiences all over the U.S., inveighed against the "shoddy and jaded intellectualism" of most modern poets, called instead for "instances of beauty that make mankind feel well and hopeful about life." Died. August S. Duesenberg, 75, builder (with his brother Fred) of the famed luxury automobiles and racers that bore his name; of a heart ailment; in Camby, Ind. First manufactured in 1911. the Duesenberg racer dominated the Indianapolis Speedway 500-mile race throughout the 1920s From 1929 until 1937, when the Depression killed the demand for high-priced cars ($13,000 and up), the rakish silhouette and high-powered...
While Booth galloped over the Navy Yard bridge into southern Maryland, official Washington collapsed in "inert panic." Instead of directing pursuit of the assassin, the capital's police chief, who was in the audience and saw him, rushed off to tell his detectives to gather witnesses. Four soldiers bore the mortally wounded President to a tailor's house across from the theater. Word flashed that an attacker had stabbed Secretary of State Seward, bedridden by a recent accident. Washington's army commandant, General Christopher C. Augur, sent patrols out helter-skelter and waited for orders from...
...three of the other female hemophiliacs' families were British, all fitted the classic Mendelian inheritance pattern: a father-bleeder, a non-bleeding mother-carrier. One of the hemophiliac daughters successfully bore a child (TIME, July 16, 1951), but was later forced to undergo surgical removal of the uterus after she nearly bled to death...