Word: master
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With 100 men now enrolled in its ranks, an ever increasing number of Harvard volunteers are joining the Cambridge Auxiliary Fire Department. Putting them through their paces every Friday afternoon, Captain George Friel. Massachusetts State Drill Master, and Fire Chief Herman E. Gutheim soon hope to have a group of well-trained reserve firemen...
Lieutenant George G. Hedblom '37, former Varsity football star, was a member of the great air armada which bombed the German-occupied industrial town of Lille, in Northern France, it was reported in the Boston Herald recently. Hedblom, until recently a master and football coach at the St. George's School in Newport, R. I., was a back on the football teams...
...Priorities" is a synthesis of musical comedy, circus, and burlesque. It begins with a three ring splurge of roller skating and ends up with Willie Howard's artistic interpretation of burlesque's favorite chestnut, the butcher boy skit. Lou Holtz, as a master of ceremonies, supplies, among other things, the only element of continuity to what might have been called "Vaudeville Incorporated." There's also a kick chorus, misnamed "The Versailles Beauties," who lamely present a tedious routine, but they don't appear often enough to do much harm...
...Missimo's tea party, Willkie rose to blandishing heights: "I accept as the quintessence of all the compliments I have ever received that I have been complimented by such a delightful lady. In 1940 I made 625 campaign speeches and attempted to answer the master charmer of the day. That was easy. This is tough...
...Sterling Hayden, who gave up the cinema to live on his sailboat, went to work for the United Seamen's Service as director of entertainment for all the merchant mariners' clubs and rest homes. Her office hours in Manhattan: 9 to 5 every day. Hayden is now master of a schooner carrying war cargoes. Ace Wagnerian Soprano Helen Traubel, St. Louis baseball fan, was ordered by her operatic coach to stay away from all the World Series games to keep her from ruining her voice by cheering. For the first time in a blue moon Blues Moaner Libby...