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First he had a promise to keep to an old Missouri friend, portly, bald Bennett Champ Clark, his appointee to the District of Columbia Court of Appeals and a former Senate colleague. In a century-old Episcopal church at Berryville, Va., the President stood as best man as Widower Clark and British-born Actress Violet Heming were married. Best Man Truman, the only participant not in formal rig, seemed to be the calmest person in the church. He delivered the ring at the right moment, stood through the ceremony, then stepped back into a pew with Mrs. Truman and daughter...
...sedate congressional committee room rang last week with the din of intercollegiate battle. The House Naval Affairs Committee, under the watchful eye of billiard-bald Chairman Carl Vinson, sat, looked and listened. Tiny, ancient, impoverished St. John's College was defending its 160-year-old campus against the predatory onslaught of its huge wealthy neighbor, the U.S. Naval Academy...
...TiME, Aug. 13) for conducting German orchestras, is living alone near St. Moritz rather than return to face the music. At Lake Geneva gray-haired Wilhelm Furtwängler, conductor of the Berlin Philharmonic and Göring-appointed Nazi Staatsrat of Prussia, is writing a symphony. In Wiesbaden, bald Pianist Walter Gieseking played twice for U.S. Army audiences before someone got wind of his wartime collaboration. He was promptly forbidden to make another appearance...
Combat Journalism. Pravda has not mellowed with age. For the 10,000th issue its dour, bald, 66-year-old editor, David Iosifovich Zaslavsky (who that day received the Order of the Patriotic War, First Class) wrote another lecture on freedom of the press...
Striving to keep the great weight of fact and action quick, supple and personal, the film's creators hit on a few bold devices. The boldest: substituting for the customary bald-faced narrative prose some passages in blank verse written by Private Harry Brown-and for the customary sports announcer's voice, a far more intelligent Voice of History. Though the verse is generally middling and the BBC-accented Voice of History is a trifle pallid, the innovation is as welcome as it is startling...