Word: glees
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...search to a single if vast theme: "To clarify our minds about the racial ferment of Africa." Reporter Gunther's more ambitious plan: to tell "all that the ordinary reader needs to know about Africa." Inside Africa is an outsider's story, flung together with globe-trotting glee; The African Giant is an inside job by a cautious professional who probably knows more about black Africa than any other white man alive...
...County, Miss. Quarles's father, a dentist, moved to Van Buren, Ark. As a boy, Quarles roamed the Ozarks, fished in mountain streams, applied an old country remedy when a playmate was bitten by a snake (the remedy: a raw-chicken poultice). He sang in his high-school glee club with bazooka-playing Arkansas Traveler Bob Burns, graduated at 15, then taught school for $50 a month. In 1912-16 he worked his way through Yale, averaging 90-95. He enlisted, fought in France with the Rainbow Division, came home an artillery captain-and went to work...
...that he should be rehired at double his pay. The boss was convinced, but so was Desi: he refused the job, under the illusion that his great popularity allowed him to write his own ticket anywhere. With this tired old comedy situation, the studio audience's roars of glee (stepped up to full volume by sound engineers) were received in many a living room in baffled silence...
...habit of addressing himself boldly to posterity, celebrated his 86th birthday by spouting pronouncements on everything from the skyscraper ("Ought to go out into the country . . . cast its shadow on its own ground") to the drift toward equalitarianism ("Going to be the death of democracy"). Then, with boyish glee, he burbled: "As for me, if I felt any better I couldn't stand...
Robert J. Gartside, Jr. '50, Assistant Conductor of the Glee Club, has been awarded the Frank Huntington Beebe Fellowship for the study of Music. He will study voice in Paris, under Pierre Bernac...