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...hour later, Press Secretary Stephen T. Early told reporters that the President "might leave" for Washington the next afternoon. This timing caught the lead in all Sunday morning papers, was enough to shake Japanese nerves. After lunch, with only a half-hour's swim in the pool (his favorite single relaxation), the President drove back to Newnan, his face grave. He went without the usual gay hand-waving to the crowds of back-country farmers, out to see the caravan whoosh past...
...successful guest conductor last season, led a sweetly stirring performance of Gluck's Orpheus and Eurydice. Another great opera man. Sir Thomas Beecham, will be in the saddle for Carmen, Le Coq d'Or and Bach's Phoebus and Pan. The Met had planned to shake up its two Italian veterans, Gennaro Papi and Ettore Panizza, giving to each some operas that the other had been leading. But just before last week's Traviata, Signor Papi dropped dead of heart disease. Panizza took his place...
...misery loves company, young Boudreau can shake hands with John Bernard ("Hans") Lobert, the Phillies' new manager. Lobert is a big-nosed, bighearted, bowlegged little gaffer, dubbed Hans because in his early playing days he resembled and tried to imitate Immortal Hans Wagner. He has 39 years of baseball behind him. But it will take more than experience to shove the Phillies out of the National League cellar. Reason: in order to keep the club from the sheriff, its owner, Gerald Nugent, is forced to sell his most promising players...
This was reassuring talk. Allocation, Washington's new magic word, was about to replace priorities in earnest (TIME. Oct. 6). Theoretically, this meant that civilian industries starving for lack of scarce materials could expect a fairer shake, that Army and Navy must also submit to allocation, instead of hogging the head of the queue. Said Nelson Deputy Albert J. Browning last week, "Some proportion of critical materials [must be] set aside for general civilian...
...described Paris as a seaport city), damns Winchell for perfecting the kind of tabloid journalism he himself did most to encourage. Editing Winchell for libel "developed in me a philosophical imperturbability which, otherwise, my nervous make-up might never have acquired." Said Arthur Brisbane of Winchell's jargon: "Shake speare described it. 'A tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing...