Word: briefing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Alas, the Washington ensign today carries his brief case in his left hand. The gallant right arm is in a sling...
...whose sleek, accomplished ballroom dancing ranges from sambas to minuets, from pirouettes to parodies, but palls like any other meal after 13 generous helpings. Vicente Gomez is expert-and persistent -with a guitar; Jerry Shelton is lively-and lavish-with an accordion; Al & Lee Reiser are energetic-and relatively brief -with two pianos. The Golden Gate Quartet harmonizes-and with not too much variety. Susan Miller sings-a little too close to the microphone. Bill Gary dances-a little too much like Paul Draper...
Perhaps a brief word should be said of Bartok's career to date. In 1890 at the age of nine, Bartok first composed some pieces for piano, and a year later made his public debut as pianist and composer. In 1893 he entered Pressburg, where he studied largely under Dohnanyi, and six years later he left for the Royal Hungarian Academy of Budapest. Throughout these years Bartok went through successive periods under the influence first of Brahms, then Lizt and Wagner, later Richard Strauss and Magyar folk music. With the failure of the new Hungarian Music Society in which...
...Eden? In the past year's Gallup polls in Britain Eden has run as first choice to succeed Winston Churchill as Prime Minister, challenged only during Sir Stafford Cripps's brief flurry last spring. He might or might not be only a stopgap Prime Minister. (He might, for example, be muscled out of the way by Arch-Tory Sir John Anderson.) But, Churchill having announced that he will retire as soon as war ends-when the U.S. wants to talk permanent postwar settlements-the best available Briton for the other end of the discussion is Mr. Eden...
...room now used for examinations. While Widener Library was being built, books were stored in Randall and Merrill became stoward of Foxcroft Hall which had been converted into a dining room. Foxcroft stood behind the New Lecture Hall where the new chemical laboratories have since been crected. After a brief period of service here Merrill became assistant steward and then steward of Memorial Hall. Memorial Hall at this time served about 1400 at every meal--a far cry from the House plan of today feeding only several hundred or less at a meal...