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...without guilt. Miyoshi says: "You can't look at eyes. It's not feminine. You should look down. It's not really insult, it's not pretty." Her English-speaking brother brought three of the Americans to the Umeki home as guests. There were Edward Giannini, a clarinet-playing T-4 in the 417th Army Service Forces Band, Sergeant Joseph Bardner, and a third soldier whose name the Umeki family never learned. They knew him as "G Minor" because he always muttered "G minor, G minor" as he played his guitar...
...production with a repertory drawn from more than 200 submitted works. Among the composers represented were such veterans as Douglas Moore (The Ballad of Baby Doe), Leonard Bernstein (Trouble in Tahiti), Gian Carlo Menotti (The Medium, The Old Maid and the Thief), plus such lesser-known names as Vittorio Giannini (The Taming of the Shrew) and Mark Bucci (Tale for a Deaf...
...project centers around the old problem of reentry, i.e., how to keep a space vehicle (or missile) from burning up due to friction when it hits the relatively dense atmosphere of the earth at 20,000 m.p.h. To study this friction in the laboratory, Dr. Gabriel M. Giannini, a close friend of the late Atomic Physicist Enrico Fermi, is building a device called a "plasma jet." A stream of inert gas such as argon is passed through a high intensity electric discharge. The resulting heat forces a jet of highly ionized gas out a small hole at enormous speed...
...banking. As a business administration student at the University of Minnesota, he worked as a bank messenger on the side. While he was working as a Federal Reserve System bank examiner in the mid-19303, his knowledge of banking so impressed the late Bank of America Founder A. P. Giannini that in 1936 Giannini said: "We can use a man like you, and you'll find the way open clear to the top if you make good." Said Beise: "I'll make good. When do I start?" Beise started right away, became a vice president his first year...
...Opera Theater (Sat. 4 p.m., NBC). The Taming of the Shrew by Vittorio Giannini...