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Arthur Rodzinski, brush-haired, Dalmatian-born conductor of the New York Philharmonic-Symphony, played conventional Bach and Beethoven for the opening concert of the orchestra's 103rd season in Carnegie Hall, then gave convention the boot by playing an encore-George Gershwin's jazzy / Got Rhythm. Although the first Philharmonic encore in many years brought down the house, it struck the New York Times's staid music critic, Olin Downes, as "an unwise impulse...
...WASPs should get military status or be washed out altogether. As Congress showed no disposition to change its-mind, there was no choice for Hap Arnold. Admitting that there were now enough men to carry on the WASPs' jobs, principally ferrying of Army aircraft, he swung the washout brush, picked the December date "to permit the WASPs to reach their homes by Christmas...
Inconsolable. Maillol was descended from a family of fishermen and smugglers of Banyuls. The sculptor spent much of his life in the pink stucco house where he was born. As a youth he studied painting in Paris, but he was unsuccessful with the brush. Not until he was 40 did he have any working knowledge of sculpture. Then one day he picked up a fallen tree trunk, from it carved a woman's figure. For the next 42 years he devoted himself almost entirely to carving and modeling female forms. "I am inconsolable," he once said, "not to have...
Something for Justice. When Hatch continued to prod, Waxey pounded the table, glared at the Senator and began to ask questions himself. Senator Hatch tried to brush them aside. Waxey shouted: "Don't give me no deviated answers...
Naturally, there's no definite proof that the Founder ever did brush up against it, but the facts indicate that he probably did. The wood was discovered in 1934 during the reconstruction of the Old Library of Emmanuel into an additional dining hall. Workmen on the job were stripping away the south wall when they hit into a massive oak panel, hidden by the centuries and nine inches of plaster and brick...