Word: funking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...evening touring Violinist Nathan Milstein found himself in Chicago, all dressed up and no place to go. In a bit of a funk, he consulted his contract, which cryptically stated that he was to play a concert that night in suburban Evanston, Ill. Misplaced Person Milstein, at a loss for details on exactly where, appealed for help to the Chicago Tribune's omniscient Drama & Musicritic Claudia Cassidy. Manning her telephone, Claudia finally hit on the right place, just an hour before curtain time. At 8 p.m. Fiddler Milstein, calm but breathless, strode onstage at Northwestern University's Cahn...
Speakers will be Harry L. Funk, Assistant to the Personnel Manager, Textile Fibers Division, E. I. duPont & Co.; Charlton MacVeagh '24, Vice Chairman of the Board, Mallinckrodt Chemical Works; and Carl R. Addinall '25, Foreign Scientific Manager of Merck & Co. Ronald E. Vanelli '41, Director of the Chemical Laboratories of the University, will be moderator...
...Funk joined duPont in 1932 and since then has served in various supervisory capacities in rayon and nylon manufacturing facilities. MacVeagh served in advisory positions to the Federal Government in World...
...plotter who is quivering in his movie seat when the warning sirens sound. His wife is the first of 189,868 victims of the Bomb. As men, women and children are "lacerated into pulpy slivers," Thompson reaches his out-of-town civil defense headquarters but collapses there in a funk...
...that papa's revenge plot isn't clever; it's that Playwright Williams is so much cleverer throwing monkey wrenches into it. What with the wrong person turning up at the right moment, or the right person at the wrong one, or somebody showing funk or something important disappearing, there is endless gang-aft-agleying, and Someone Waiting seems more an obstacle race than a thrill er. Never believable, in time it becomes something of a bore, and though Leo G. Carroll plays the father with his usual deftness, it is on the audience that he really...