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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Music had gone together to a concert of Belgium's famed Pro Arte String Quartet, of which Maas was the cellist. They came away determined to form a quartet of their own. The four-Violinists Sidney Griller and Jack O'Brien, Cellist Colin Hampton and Violist Philip Burton-decided over a pint of beer that the way to become a quartet was to live together, break all family ties, refuse engagements to play separately...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Quartet in Residence | 7/19/1948 | See Source »

...Burton L. Stratton will be the new production manager of the University Press effective August 1. Stratton, formerly secretary and production manager of Henry Holt Company, will replace Alfred V. Jules, who held the post here since...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Briefs of Today's News | 5/10/1948 | See Source »

...White Sulphur Springs, W.Va., the Duke of Windsor also took honors of a sort. He was by far the sportiest of a sartorially splendid foursome. His competition: British Cinemagnate J. Arthur Rank, ex-Senator Burton K. Wheeler and Railroader Robert R. Young...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: The Working Class | 5/3/1948 | See Source »

Middle strength lies both in pitching and fielding. Their best man, acc southpaw Dick Burton, will not work today, for Coach Max Bishop will need him tomorrow when Navy meets Dartmouth at Hanover. The two teams are currently tied for League leadership with three wins apiece...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Varsity Meets Powerful Navy Nine Here Today | 4/30/1948 | See Source »

...activity is in Minneapolis. In Ohio last week, Earl Hart was energetically directing the primary campaign from a parlor-bedroom in Cleveland's Carter Hotel. A slight, intense man with a palm-of-the-hand knowledge of Ohio politics, Hart was-campaign manager for Senator Harold Burton in 1940, for Ohio's Governor Thomas Herbert in 1946. Eastern headquarters in New York's Sheraton Hotel is headed by an affluent New Jersey lawyer named Amos Peaslee. In Philadelphia, Jay Cooke, great-grandson of the Civil War financier and a onetime G.O.P. candidate for the U.S. Senate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Not Just Amateurs | 4/26/1948 | See Source »

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