Word: mellow
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Quick Growth. If Ambassador Joe had a motto, it might well be Operando Tutus, Secure by Operating. Joseph Patrick Kennedy's father came over from Ireland, became the mellow-voiced boss of Ward 2 in East Boston. Joe was a newsboy, candy butcher, bus operator, Harvard graduate ('12), bank president, shipbuilder, film magnate and a Wall Street operator who left behind a monumental observation: "Anyone can lose his shirt in Wall Street if he has sufficient capital and inside information." Then he became first chairman of the Securities & Exchange Commission, under Franklin Roosevelt, first chairman of the Maritime...
...Niece. Joan's voice is no more remarkable than her rival partner's, but like him she has learned to handle it with mellow finesse. Her family (their name was once Simon) has been in show business for half a century. Her father is a music publisher. She has a brother and an uncle who are songwriters. Another uncle is Showman Gus Edwards. The family kept Joan's nose to the piano until she was 16. At Hunter College she majored in music and minored in psychology, taught piano and sang on the radio...
...containing traces of unquestionably valuable metal, with delicate markings and crystal patterns of great beauty and rarity, but of as little appreciable utility as most meteorites. Virginia Woolf wrote short stories all her life, sketching them out in very rough form and putting them away in a drawer to mellow. Or she wrote them to rest her mind while she was writing her novels. Published last week was a posthumous collection of 18, selected by her husband, Leonard Woolf. The book will please collectors...
...recently been the subject of a critical drumfire) weave back & forth, sometimes creating horrendous dissonances, sometimes blending with skilled counterpoint. The idealistic "blueprint" mind is uppermost in Joseph M. Jones's A Modern Foreign Policy for the United States, which consists of three articles originally written for FORTUNE. Mellow realism takes control in Carl L. Becker's How New Will the Better World...
Professor Becker is mellow, reasonable, and willing to work with anyone within a certain "area of agreement." He would probably be willing to accept most of Mr. Jones's proposals for streamlining the State Department and for a beneficent democratic "dynamism" in foreign affairs. But Professor Becker quietly and unobtrusively suggests that an international economic order presupposes an abatement of the social conflict inside nations. No doubt Mr. Jones would go along with Carl Becker on this. But neither author can tell how the trick is to be turned. Neither can they tell how to prevent civil war from...