Word: armstrongs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...efforts of the organist, James Armstrong, to surmount these difficulties while playing an extremely difficult part, were in some cases, notably the tremendous crescendo in "Behold, all flesh," very successful. However, his choice of stops was not always happy, particularly in the use of reeds in quieter sections. But the main defects were entirely beyond his control: the sense of release which is so integral to the form of the work is impossible except as indicated in the original scoring...
Government 180 and Government 185 will replace the present University-taught courses in the modified Harvard Army ROTC curriculum, according to Col. DeVere P. Armstrong, professor of Military Science and Tactics. He stated yesterday that these changes are subject to the approval of "higher Army authority," and in any case are definite only for the academic year...
...purpose of this experiment, according to Armstrong, is to give future Harvard officers a much broader viewpoint on world affairs than the straight military reserve training provides. The University's program is considerably more difficult than the average Army ROTC course, and thus provides its students with a better quality of training...
...host, Gunther likes to invite at least 75 people and mix such disparate guests as Foreign Affairs Editor Hamilton Fish Armstrong and Audrey Hepburn, Marlene Dietrich and the Duchess of Windsor. He dotes on introducing the famed to the famed in glowing detail, as if they inhabited far-distant planets. One occasion when Gunther skipped such identification was in presenting Paul Auriol to the Duke of Windsor, who murmured: "Don't I know something about your father?" The glacial reply: "Possibly. He's President of France." (The duke was repaid at the same party when the Adman-Philanthropist...
...Vivaldi was preceded by a Brahms motet, O Heiland Reiss die Himmel Auf, portions of a Byrd Mass, and a powerful Brahms prelude played magnificently by the organist, James Armstrong...