Word: gentlemanly
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...Cultist. "We are the villains infesting our time of confusion," wrote one young gentleman of Japan recently, "and the weapon we use is our youthfulness." As the most talked-about youngster in modern Japan, 24-year-old Shintaro Ishihara has every right to act as spokesman for his generation. Not yet a year out of college, he is already known as a composer, painter, a movie star whose haircut and clothes are ardently aped by teen-agers from Tokyo to Nagasaki, and the most sensationally successful author in the nation, with four bestselling novels to his credit. Beyond all this...
...University at present retains much of Lowell's original scheme. His notion of a "gentleman's club," however, has been reserved for rare occasions...
Elliot Perkins '23, Master of Lowell House, has announced that the dinner will be "remeniscent of the manner in which Mr. Lowell believed that Harvard men should dine," a manner resembling that of a "gentleman's club...
Died. Thomas Francis (Tommy) Dorsey Jr., 51, hot-tempered hot trombonist and bespectacled "Sentimental Gentleman of Swing"; of suffocation in his sleep during an attack of nausea; in Greenwich, Conn. Tommy and his elder brother, Saxophonist Jimmy, called their first band (1920) "Dorsey's Novelty Six," later razzed up the title to "Dorsey's Wild Canaries." The Dorseys riffed through the jazz-dazzled '20s under Bandleaders Paul Whiteman, Red Nichols and Rudy Vallee, by 1934 had formed the Dorsey Brothers' Orchestra, within a year hit the bigtime of the big-band era. Then Tommy stomped...
...town the good works of the Rockefeller bounty is felt. Unaware, perhaps, farmers in this area are beginning to use hybrid corn seed made possible by research and development grants from the Rockefeller Foundation. We are grateful to you for such an excellent portrayal of a gracious and dedicated gentleman...