Word: joviality
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...them, jovial, Kentucky-born Robert Todd (for A. Lincoln's boy) Duncan, 41, has never given up hope of getting into grand opera. After teaching music and English in Louisville (Ky.) City College and Washington's Howard University, he made his operatic debut in Manhattan in an all-Negro version of Cavalleria Rusticana. George Gershwin read the rave reviews, gave Baritone Duncan the lead in Porgy and Bess. He has since sung the part more than 1,200 times. He has also made concert tours, taught singing, had a key spot in Broadway's Cabin...
...First Lord of the Admiralty Albert V. Alexander, 60. He had been First Lord twice before, once under Churchill. Sound, jovial and popular, First Lord Alexander likes to bang on the piano while he sings Clementine and Little Brown Jug, could also be counted on to bang through the war against Japan...
...Asor Island became the headquarters of the ATCOM (atoll commander), short, jovial Commodore Oliver Owen ("Scrappy") Kessing...
...Chicago Daily News's ace of whimsy, round and jovial Bob (Robert J.) Casey, is no man to sit around waiting for strange and wonderful things to happen. Once, when he heard that a couple of scientists were to climb to a Grand Canyon plateau never before trod by man, he flew over it dropping old whiskey bottles and Ford parts for the amazed scientists to find. More recently, as a roving war correspondent, he has had no trouble finding stories worth reporting...
Lieut. General Robert L. Eichelberger's Eighth Army was General Douglas MacArthur's invaluable Team No. 2 in the Philippine campaign. Built up quietly in New Guinea by big, jovial Ike Eichelberger with a staff which started training in Ben Lear's old Second Army, the Eighth went into action as an identified army late in January. The 38th Division and elements of the 24th piled ashore north of Bataan, went on to take Subic Bay and Olongapo. Two days after the first landing the 11th Airborne piled out of boats at Nasugbu and drove...