Word: lustered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first post-war regattas, the Varsity crew can expect a shuffling of oars in an effort to reach a winning summer combination. Bert Haines in charge of activities at Newell in the absence of Tom Bolles, will experiment with holdovers and returnees alike in order to add luster to a record that holds but a single win, though over Yale...
...chairman of the War Resources Board (1939), priorities director of OPM (1941), Lend-Lease administrator (1941-43), and Under Secretary of State (1943-44), he added an impressive governmental finish to his civilian luster...
Nancy Donovan combines her fine lyric soprano voice with a winsome personality, good looks, and real acting talent in an excellent performance as Martha. She is ably seconded by Robert Pitkin (of "my object all sublime" fame), Le Roi Operti, Betty Luster, and several others. But Robert Douglas is sadly inadequate as the opera singer who is Martha's first love; he is fat with disturbing regularity, and his vocal shortcomings are not overcome by other saving graces...
...Truman had nominated George Allen to RFC, and George weathered a Senate committee's scrutiny. But Funnyman George hardly added luster to the Administration. And when bumbling Jake Vardaman, whom the President had named to the Federal Reserve Board, was called before the Senate, God only knew what would happen...
...West Coast, the name player was Herman Wedemeyer (no kin to the General), Hawaii's gift to St. Mary's College. He is a 173-lb., triple-threat halfback who even knows how to block. So far his luster has been dimmed by the fact that St. Mary's has met only weak opposition. This week Wedemeyer gets his chance against Southern California...