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Pass the Staff. The 10,000 arsenal workers, including highly skilled technicians skimmed from Hudson's other plants, will be handed over to Westinghouse. Their new boss: Brooklyn-born Frank D. Newbury. A Cornell graduate (1901), he joined Westinghouse 42 years ago, is now a vice president running the Emergency Products Division...
...Vivant. Brooklyn-born Porter Sargent lives in the Boston suburb of Brookline, is a bit of a bon vivant (old cheese, old china), something of a poet (he has published one volume). He attributes his real education to travel rather than Harvard (he sent Porter Jr. to North Carolina's experimental Black Mountain College), but enjoyed his Harvard post-graduate research in botany, zoology, neurology. After eight years of teaching at Cambridge's proper Browne & Nichols School, he spent a decade traveling in Europe and circling the globe five times with pupils of his unique Travel School...
...last week's birthday concert, six surviving leaguers had written special compositions. They were performed by such topflight artists as Soprano Marjorie Lawrence and the Budapest Quartet. The small audience politely applauded the work of Boston-born Walter Piston (Quintet for Flute and Strings), Brooklyn-born Aaron Copland (Birthday Piece, On Cuban Themes For Two Pianos), French-born Darius Milhaud (string quartet), California-born Frederick Jacobi (songs about the prophet Nehemiah), Czech-born Bohuslav Martinu (Trio for Flute, Violin and Piano). Hit of the evening came at the program's close with Russian-born Louis Gruenberg...
...also had, among its vivacious, fun-loving cast, two of the most personable and best-equipped fledgling divas that U.S. opera has turned up this season. One, Brooklyn-born Dorothy Sarnoff (no relation to RCA's President David Sarnoff), got her first break as a finalist in last year's Metropolitan Opera auditions of the air. As Rosalinda, she showed that she is ready for bigger things than operetta. The other, blue-eyed Philadelphia-born Virginia MacWatters, a protégé of famed Soprano Lotte Lehmann, tossed off her tricky coloratura arias with the ease and precision...
...Britons, this was sweet magnitude. To Britons who remembered the nightmare of Coventry there was savage satisfaction in hearing the Berlin radio say: "The nightmare of Sunday still is weighing on the Cologne population." To those who had seen the hell of Plymouth it was good to hear Brooklyn-born R.C.A.F. Pilot Charles Honychurch say of Cologne: "It was like looking down the mouth of hell." To those whose kids had been taken from them and evacuated to the country it was good to hear of mass evacuations from Cologne, Aachen, Düsseldorf, Wuppertal, Mainz. To those...