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...considered one of the hopes of postwar German music. Says respected Critic H. H. Stuckenschmidt: "He belongs to the school of moderately modern music . . . not very modern, but played with most modern means." Egk himself is full of brisk ideas. Says he: "Opera must again become a real show, like French baroque opera, meant...
...Missouri. Margaret, accompanied by a White House secretary and a couple of Secret Service men, was touring in Europe (on one of his trips ashore at Washington, father Truman telephoned her across the Atlantic). At Yorktown, Va., former artilleryman Truman went ashore for a two-mile walk at his brisk 120-pace-a-minute stride, and chided newsmen who fell behind. At night, he and his staff, including Administrative Assistant Donald Dawson (the man with the way in the old RFC), played "poverty" poker. Each man put up $100, could draw from the pool if he ran through that. Quarterdeck...
...Like you were dead." A bit dismayed, Swayze got rid of most of the television make-up he had been wearing, added a toupee to thicken out his sparse thatch, set himself to cultivating an air of friendly animation. In three years, these simple measures have helped to propel brisk, 45-year-old Newsaster Swayze into a bigger-than-TV prominence. His Camel News Caravan weekdays, 7:45 p.m., NBCTV) now has an audience of some 5,000,000, rates as one of the liveliest news shows on television. Each 15-minute program begins with Commentator Swayze's crisp...
...just a boy from P.S. 13." Weinberg's favorite remark to colleagues who couldn't keep up with his lightning-like mind: "You're not so bright today." Dozens of times a day, he would pop across the hall to Wilson's office with a brisk, "You busy, Charlie?" then clear up some mobilization problem...
Harry Truman strode into his weekly press conference with the brisk confidence of a man on solid and well-scouted ground. In a mild, almost casual voice, he began by reading out a paragraph from his April 11 radio speech explaining his dismissal of General MacArthur: "The Communist side must now choose its course of action . . . and with it the awful responsibility for what may follow . . . The decision is theirs, because the forces of the United Nations will strive to limit the conflict if possible...