Word: granting
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...music, some of it free, in parks, bowls, stadiums, on a river bank (in Washington). Conductors there were by the dozen, but few topnotchers. Bruno Walter tried out as a summer bush leaguer, was well received at Hollywood Bowl and the San Francisco World's Fair.* In Chicago, Grant Park attendance, the largest in the U. S., was expected to total 3,500,000 people from June 1 to Labor Day. Typical figures elsewhere: 300,000 at Manhattan's Stadium; 123,000 for twelve free concerts in Washington; 76,000 for 24 at Chicago's Ravinia...
...summer's best draw, had six major engagements, attracted 60,000 people to Milwaukee's Washington Park, where an orchestra shell was donated by retired Brewer Emil Blatz. Pianist Alec Templeton and Soprano Kirsten Flagstad trailed her, with five dates each. Flagstad drew 225,000 to Grant Park, 20,000 to Manhattan's Stadium, but only 3,000 on a hot night in Philadelphia's Dell. Oscar Levant's fame in Information Please is paying out. He had four engagements, drew 10,000 at Robin Hood Dell. Marian Anderson brought the Stadium its top audience...
...even quite the same New England. The slave power was gone, but the bankers remained. Most of the young men were dead or gone West. The New England mind recoiled from the consequences of victory with the same instinctive consternation that made Henry Adams recoil from U. S. Grant. Wrote Henry Adams, describing his and his father's return after a decade in England: "Had they been Tyrian traders of the year B.C. 1,000, landing from a galley fresh from Gibraltar, they could hardly have been stranger on the shore of a world so changed...
...manage this vast registration, Solicitor General Francis Biddle summoned a fellow Philadelphian, Earl Grant Harrison, 41. Mr. Harrison left a wife, three children and a lucrative law practice to help his Government, expects to wind up his job in six months. He anticipates little trouble with recalcitrants, but, just in case, he dropped the reminder that failure to register carries a $1,000 fine and six months in jail...
...idea. The idea is to show Hitler's Germany not through the eyes of a German or a Jew, but of the screen's most Typical American Girl, smart, slapdash, big-eyed Joan Bennett. When Miss Bennett, for all the world like the heroine of a Gary Grant comedy, slithers up a Berlin street in a low-slung roadster and comes upon a gang of Storm Troopers beating a few old Czechs, the smash is terrific...