Word: tore
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...there were four times in self-centered Richard Wagner's life when he "really lost his head over a woman." His love for Minna was violent, "but because it had no basis in artistic sympathy could not last." He was drawn to two others but "the circumstance .. . tore them apart." (The precise circumstance: they were both married.) But such circumstances did not stop Wagner from running off with the wife of his friend Hans von Bülow, who conducted the first performance of Tristan. Cosima von Bülow, illegitimate daughter of Wagner's old friend...
...have come back from their missions looking like flying junk shops (see cut). One of them flew into a trap of cables strung between two peaks. The cables tore off both wing tip tanks and cut into the spar in the leading edge of the wing. They sheared off the left wing tip and 20 inches of the aileron. But the pilot climbed to 30,000 feet and got home, landing at 170 m.p.h. and taxiing up to the line under his own power. "It takes almost a direct hit by heavy antiaircraft," said one pilot, "to bring down...
...with Orpheus by shortwave radio. Her immediate superiors in the beyond-a bombed-out no man's land between the living and the dead-are a trio of business-suited bureaucrats in a chain of command that goes on into infinity. The role of the avenging Bacchantes, who tore Orpheus apart in the ancient myth, is now taken by a seedy bunch of envious poets who gather in what looks like Paris' Café de Flore. When characters shuttle between this life and the next, they glide through mirrors-Cocteau's favorite symbol of the doorway...
...William Boyd (who had played Sergeant Quirt in the Broadway version of What Price Glory?) was raided by the police during a noisy party and thrown into jail for possession of illegal whisky and gambling equipment. Hopalong-to-be suffered; when newspapers ran his picture by mistake, Radio Pictures tore up a $3,000-a-week contract, pushed him adrift...
...Yale Athletic Department also liked the corn-pone drawl in which Hickman had announced his coaching aim at New Haven: to win just enough games "to keep the alumni sullen but not mutinous." Though Hickman's five-year contract still had two years to run, Yale last week tore it up and handed him a new one. Its term: an unprecedented ten years. Three days later, powerhouse Princeton gave Hickman's Yale the worst beating (47-12) in the history of the Princeton-Yale series. Nobody tried to hoist Herman up and carry him off the field; indeed...