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As evidence, he produced an approving comment from Georgia's crusty, shrewd Carl Vinson, perennial watchdog of the armed services. Johnson quoted from a five-month-old Vinson speech: "There can be no doubt that Secretary Johnson deserves the commendation of the entire nation for having carried out so...
The Boston Traveler commented in July of 1948 that "George Fingold, Assistant Attorney-General who headed the Revere scandal probe, merits commendation for public service. The racket-buster might be called a born lawyer."
"Scheherazade" is a colorful and agitated ensemble work that does not stress the individual dancer so much as the group's effect. Here the corps de ballet shows its special profficiency; for in "Scheherazade" the spectacle of the whirling, sensual dance is important, not stylistic perfection. In this dance the...
In discussing the coaching system Bingham gave special commendation to Jack Barnaby and Hal Ulen. A coach's job, he stated, is, like a professor's, to teach, and in this respect, Ulen is "one of the greatest swimming coaches in the world."
Few living painters have had a fuller bag of tricks than 72-year-old Cuban-French Artist Francis Picabia. He began performing his sleight-of-hand at 15 when he copied his wealthy Cuban father's collection of Spanish paintings, replaced them one by one, and sold the originals...