Word: weekes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...great hunter on the stage, Lauritz Melchior in real life is hardly less terrible. The deerskin costume he wears as Siegfried is the skin of a deer that he shot and skinned himself on a hunting trip in Germany. When he can get a week off from the opera, he makes for the woods of Maine or North Dakota, where he prowls around with a brass hunting horn and a brace of dogs, gunning for ducks, rabbits, deer. He has shot panthers in South America, once bagged a 1,600-lb. bison in North Dakota. In New Brunswick he shot...
...because I love Life. That is an important statement and I want to repeat it: William Saroyan Loves Life." This Wolcott Gibbs parody of a cocky Saroyan dramatic preface appeared on Manhattan newsstands one morning last week. Same morning's papers told about some new Saroyan shenanigans. A brand-new, self-consciously indigenous, highly touted and talented group who call themselves the Ballet Theatre staged the world premiere of a Saroyan innovation. Its title was a phrase for which anti-Saroyans have long groped to describe William Saroyan himself: The Great American Goof. The author of My Heart...
...Last week, over Manhattan's WABC, the Grace Line turned radio sponsor to launch an installment plan-a twelve-day, $250 Caribbean cruise, including hotels & motor trips ashore, was offered for $25 down (before sailing time), the rest in ten monthly payments. Sailing: every Friday. Object: to entice the war-marooned U. S. cruise trade off the beach...
...more piping times, Grace Line might have chosen for its radio debut travel-folder travelogues and bump Carib rhythms. But for 1940 audiences, it picked CBS News Analyst Elmer Davis for three 15-minute chats each week on the news of the day. Grace Line did not ask its broadcaster to pretend that there is no war at sea. In his broadcasts last week Davis reported a couple of sinkings, all the home-water problems involved in the Navy's proposed new five-year ship building program (see p. 77). These mat ters served more clearly to point...
...engaged Davis last summer, when the approaching war found its ace, H. V. Kaltenborn, in Europe. Now, with his commercial program three times a week and daily breakfast-time and post-dinner broadcasts for CBS, he pockets $900 a week. Tall, well-proportioned and active-looking, Elmer Davis wears grey or pepper-&-salt suits to match his grey hair, looks very un-Elmer-like except for his invariable little black bow ties. Many consider him a dead ringer for handsome Hoosier Paul V. McNutt, but Elmer Davis, turning 50 last week, saw another resemblance. Said he: "Now people think...