Word: borne
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...unprepared by her preacher, on his pastoral rounds he would linger out front tying his horse (later testing his tires) until she had time to whip off her apron and straighten up the parlor. Because the Methodist Discipline forbade smoking, he passed out chocolate cigars when his son was born. But he knew how to call his shots. When a parishioner begged him to tell her daughter not to accept a job in Manhattan because something might happen to her there, Parson Spence looked her in the eye, said: "Mrs. Knowles, did you ever think what might happen...
...muggery. Others (the wave and cloud sequences of Bach's Fugue, and a queer series of explosive music visualizations performed by a worried and disembodied sound track, posing diffidently on the screen like a reluctant wire) recall the abstract cinemovies made about five years ago by New Zealand-born Len Lye, show how musical sensation may be transferred to visual images...
Mickey's Sorcerer's Apprentice, but with his own famed, seasoned Philadelphia Orchestra. For this recording job, no ordinary cinema sound equipment would do. So Disney's ace sound engineer, rangy, Brooklyn-born Bill Garity, developed a whole new system of gadgets capable of catching each section of the Philadelphia Orchestra on a separate sound track. By braiding and patching these sound tracks onto a four-ply master track, he could control the faintest breath of every last bassoon. In their recording operations Garity and Stokowski used 430,000 feet of sound track, cut and patched...
...Born. To Cinemactress Toby Wing, grandniece of the late Dramatist Sir Arthur Wing Pinero, and Pilot Henry Tindall ("Dick") Merrill: a son, their second; at Miami Beach, Fla. Last spring their first son accidentally suffocated at the age of eleven months...
...Born. To Novelist Daphne du Maurier (Rebecca, Jamaica Inn) and Brigadier General F. A. M. Browning: a son; in London...