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...this is hardly fair. We must remember that this composer was writing for the pleasure of the court, and the pleasure of the court is fickle. Thus a work would be performed, enjoyed, laid aside, and in the wild search for something novel would be completely forgotten. Thus the general public got no opportunity to judge of the merit of Purcell's compositions...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Music Box | 3/31/1938 | See Source »

...recent attacks and insults that were published upon the three Albanian Princesses on the good-will tour to this country were outrageous [TIME, Feb. 28]. The statement concerning Their Highnesses' visit to this country in search of rich husbands not only is untrue but it is an insult to the entire Royal Family of Albania and also to the Albanian nation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 28, 1938 | 3/28/1938 | See Source »

...potentialities would also be super. By stepping its gas capacity up to 42,500 gal. it could fly 12,000 miles, carry ten bombs weighing a ton apiece, as well as a "sizable" torpedo boat to maintain surface contacts or search suspected ships...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Superseversky | 3/28/1938 | See Source »

...larger compositions at a London broadcast, but the death of King George V caused the British Broadcasting Corp. to ask for more appropriate music. Hindemith, who was to appear as viola soloist, could find nothing appropriate to play. Two days before the broadcast he gave up the search, decided to compose something himself for the occasion. Result: his Funeral Music, composed in a single...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Kulturbolschewist | 3/14/1938 | See Source »

...Pilot John Dunbar Graves, 35, a million-mile veteran, turned back, and apparently flew straight into the swirling heart of the storm. An hour later the plane was seen 500 ft. above raging San Joaquin River, surrounded by rocky mountain peaks. Thereafter, six days of search produced no trace...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Lost Over Fresno | 3/14/1938 | See Source »

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