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Most arrived admitting a bit sheepishly that they had read only two or three. But as the course got under way, interest kindled, and the students' zeal had the professors feeling breathless. From 7:30 a.m., when their day began, until past 11 at night, the middle-aged scholars gobbled up lectures on everything from physics to philosophy, e.g., "Homo Symbolicus or Is Man a Rational Animal...
Fees & Figures. Behind Forster, by invitation instead of subpoena, came the New York World Telegram and Sun's Frederick Woltman and American Legionnaire James F. O'Neil to deny they were clearance men. Most breathless witness of the four-day hearing was Vincent Hartnett, 40, author of the unofficial, inexact, who's who of subversion, Red Channels. Hartnett described himself as a "talent consultant," denied Cogley's charge that he was "frankly in the business of exposing people with 'front records' and then, later, of 'clearing' them." But Hartnett admitted that...
...told in the movie, Pianist Eddy Duchin's way in the world was singularly easy. He arrived breathless in Manhattan, and, within minutes, had a job in Leo Reisman's band at the old Central Park Casino, and was launched on a successful career that continued without impediment. With equal speed, he met, wooed and wed socially prominent Marjorie Oelrichs, and was instantly accepted by her friends and relatives...
...London's Daily Express front-paged the news that the American radio sponsor for the wedding broadcast was the Peter Pan brassière company. Saloon-Gossipist Earl Wilson informed his readers that "Rainier and Grace were real smoochy at the party for bridesmaids." Other reporters, sending out breathless bulletins, had a hard time agreeing on the details (see PRESS...
...with nature. Among his favorite areas were the forests near his native Ornans. It was probably there that in the 1860s he painted Forest Pool (see opposite), recently acquired by Boston's Museum of Fine Arts, in which he set down a summer's instant that in breathless hush remains a delight to hunter and nature lover alike...