Word: leon
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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From Chicago, through no miles of sleet and snow, drove Manager Leon Perssion and one of the finest string quartets in the world-the Pro Arte. This quartet still calls Brussels its home, but only in a far, faint voice. Its members: Spanish First Fiddler Antonio Brosa, 44; Belgian Second Fiddler Laurent Halleux, 43; Belgian Violist Germain Prévost, 49; British Cellist Warwick Evans, 56. It took the Pro Arte men four hours to plow from Chicago to Watertown, and once, in a bad skid, M. Prevost's $5,000 viola nearly went through the window...
...roster of fascinating characters includes a worried old dean who goes home to his Ovaltine whenever the action gets hot; a radical editor with the playwrights' universal sign of radicalism-a shock of hair; and a telephone voice answering to the name of Hot Garters. Leon Ames as the former midwestern star back for homecoming is cast to perfection. Even without a capable set of actors, however, the Thurber humor in the lines would still make "The Male Animal" highly entertaining...
...five weeks ago, as an advocate of appeasement, Verne Marshall has been sizzling like grease in a hot skillet. While objectors to Mr. Marshall and the press were frying him on all sides, last week someone flipped him from the frying pan into the fire. The flipper: doughty Dr. Leon Milton Birkhead. Dr. Birkhead, who is head of the Friends of Democracy, Inc., flipped Mr. Marshall with a long-handled telegram...
...took a recess. Meanwhile, on another front, the New Deal and steelmen worked hand in hand. To Baltimore went 500 scrap dealers for their annual convention last week. When they gathered, the price of No. 1 steel scrap was $23.50 a ton, and heading up. Up rose Price Commissioner Leon Henderson, addressed the scrapmen like a Dutch uncle. Said he, referring to his deal with the scrapmen last fall: "The Government didn't ask for a written guarantee. We went away from the meeting with the feeling that we would get a large volume of scrap at decent prices...
...were Robert F. Herrick '90, former Harvard Overseer, who described Perkins' professional career and position in the local community: Edward S. French, president of the Boston and Maine Railroad, who read a memoir on his services to New England written by Ernest M. Hopkins. President of Dartmonth College: and Leon Fraser, President of the First National Bank of New York, who explained the national and international aspects of his public service...