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Said 60-year-old Fritz Busch, who had rehearsed his singers and players within an inch of their lives, "Yah, it's lots of work. But it's marvelous." One thing that delighted him was the fact that "this year we had 13 soloists and nine of them are American-trained. That couldn't have happened 25 years ago. It shows what festivals like this are doing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Everything So Perfect | 5/15/1950 | See Source »

...consequently lost his job at the Dresden Opera, was the fact that in Cincinnati he found "community expression in the best sense of the word. Boys & girls, old ones and young ones, even the little kids, all join together and they don't bother about the races. Yah," says Fritz Busch, "it is great...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Everything So Perfect | 5/15/1950 | See Source »

...announced that the plane was due in 15 minutes. But instead of the scheduled DC-4, it would be a bucket-seat, twin-engine C-46. A tall Chinese in a long, fur-lined gown plucked off his fedora hat and rubbed a handkerchief over his shaven pate. "Ai-yah," he groaned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Flee Where? | 11/29/1948 | See Source »

...there are not 45,000 Harvard and Dartmouth grads in this area coming to the game. For the first time in many a November, the football-lover, who usually laughs at the boys from the Squa-yah, is planking down cold cash to come and see and cheer the Harvards. Or maybe the Dartmouths...

Author: By Samuel Spade, | Title: Highly Touted Indians Boast Versatile Backs, Speedy Ends | 10/22/1948 | See Source »

...moment the camera turns on him as he sits smoking a cigar in the bathtub to his final writhings on the floor of the boat, Edward G. Robinson could be Al Capone, Lucky Luciano, Dutch Schultz. At all times there is the loaded revolver, the two inch cigar, and "yah." Combining these devices with an excellent sneer, and some well handled lines, Robinson turns in his best acting job to date...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Key Largo | 9/27/1948 | See Source »

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