Word: downed
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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For a year, the Nation had been trying to get Correspondent Andrew Roth into Japan. Roth, an ex-naval officer who was indicted by a federal grand jury on charges of espionage conspiracy (TIME, June 18, 1945) and later cleared, had been accredited as a correspondent by the National Military...
The Rat Race (by Garson Kanin; produced by Leland Hayward) is one more thrust at the hard, cold sidewalks of New York. With a colorful set representing "a piece of Manhattan," and a friendly loafer and shrewish landlady providing an antiphonal chorus, the author of Born Yesterday has portrayed a...
The first phone call to the Metropolitan Opera office around noon one day last week was a little upsetting: Soprano Polyna Stoska was ill, would not be able to sing Sieglinde in Wagner's Die Walkure that night. Even though she had not sung it for four years, and...
"Are you sitting down?" he asked in German.
By 5 p.m. Helena Braun had dashed down to the Met, tried on a costume, had a few quick, calming words with Wagnerian Conductor Fritz Stiedry and got herself a membership in the American Guild of Musical Artists. Then she went home to rest till curtain time.