Word: bart
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...friend of Jazzman Benny Goodman, with whom he plays clarinet-violin-piano works by another friend, Modernist Béla Bartók, Fiddler Szigeti says of jazz: "It has raised the standards of efficiency in playing music. It is much easier to get away with a slovenly performance of Poet and Peasant than with a well-written jazz piece. Jazz brought to popular music what the impressionist brought to painting -more colors and more care in using them. I think jazz has sharpened the receptivity of the listener...
...facts, rough out drafts for Willkie speeches. Head of the squirrel cage was dark, intense Russell ("Mitch") Davenport, onetime FORTUNE managing editor, whom Willkie affectionately calls "The Zealot." Others: Pierce Butler, dry-witted, sunken-cheeked Minneapolis lawyer, son of the late famed conservative Supreme Court Justice; "Bart" Crum. smart young San Francisco lawyer; Raymond Leslie Buell, jug-eared foreign affairs expert; blond, sharp-eyed young Elliott V. Bell, former New York Times financial expert. Their routine was agonizing and invariable. One would be given a speech to write. When he had sweated his brains out over it, two or three...
...concluding lectures in the fall "Open Night" series at the Observatory will be: Nov. 6, "In Between the Stars," by Bart J. Bok, associate professor of Astronomy; and Nov. 8, "Peculiar Variable Stars," by Luigi Jacchia, research associate in Astronomy. The lectures are at 7:30 o'clock, followed by observing, if weather permits...
...lectures are: October 29, "The New Comets," by Dana K. Bailey; November 1, "Mystery of the Solar Corona," by Donald H. Menzel, associate professor of Astronomy; November 6, "In Between the Stars," by Bart J. Bok, assistant professor of Astronomy; and November 8, "Peculiar Variable Stars," by Dr. Luigi Jacchia...
...Bart Harvey, unheralded Sophomore dark horse, yesterday stole the show in the University tennis tournament by battling his way into the semi-final round, beating his classmate Jim Jenkins, 6-3, 4-6, 11-11, 6-4. The tie in the third set early in the week necessitated the final stanza being played yesterday...