Word: briefness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...abruptly called off last week. When they first planned it last year (TIME, Oct. 7), Consolidated Vultee Aircraft Corp. and Lockheed Aircraft Corp. fully expected that each could provide just what the other needed, and together blanket the field with one mammoth company. But in last week's brief announcement, Convair's Harry Woodhead and Lockheed's Robert Gross regretfully admitted that the whole thing was "no longer feasible...
Nicky Rimsky-Korsakov (Jean Pierre Aumont). Nicky, it seems, is so crazy over music that he cannot notice girls, even if it rains girls. But during his brief shore leave, Miss de Carlo inspires him to compose Song of India, Flight of the Bumblebee, Hymn to the Sun and practically every other famed achievement of the composer's lifetime except his streamlining of Mussorgsky's Boris Godunoff. The Metropolitan Opera's Charles Kullman, as the ship's tenor doctor, sings some of the compositions; Miss de Carlo dances several more. There is also an energetic duel...
Because his college background might induce him to seek reading matter said Caswell, all pulic librarians throughout the state were being supplied as fast as possible with photostats and brief official descriptions of the missing Junior...
Baylor officials declare that the ceremony will be "brief and simple...
...brief sojourn at the University of Chicago in 1909 was the last stop on Professor Pound's way to Harvard. Dean Thayer invited him to become Story Professor of Law and 1913 found him Carter Professor of Jurisprudence. At Dean Thayer's death in 1916, Professor Pound became Dean of the Law School, the first non-graduate of the School to hold that post...