Word: minored
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cello, on the other hand, frequently could not be heard. On a few rare occasions it could be heard all so much. During the rondo movement of the Sonata G minor and the last movement of the Sonata in A major it went distinctly flat. The general impression created was that Mr. Brown was nowhere near up to the technical standards that the piano was setting. He played too quietly and lacked the precise timing necessary in the fast movements...
Graduating from Dartmouth ('25), Brown had a try at banking in Detroit, returned to Dartmouth to teach history, got a Ph.D. in history from Columbia, and published a biography of a minor American Revolutionary figure (Joseph Hawley of Massachusetts). After a. spell as associate editor of the Times's monthly news review, Current History, Brown moved over to Lester Markel's Sunday department in 1936. He was assistant Sunday editor when he left, in 1945, to join TIME, where he has been editor of the Hemisphere, Canadian and Latin America sections...
...book section is an oasis of prosperity, if not brilliance. But Lester Markel knows, more intimately than most, that it is not yet doing a first-rate job. The Sunday book section, now frankly a "news book review," tries to balance its major reviews with quick looks at minor books, literary letters from overseas, interviews with big-name authors and book-trade gossip. New Editor Brown expects to do it better. Said Markel hopefully last week: "We'll get along. Brownie knows the kind of fellow I am-not too easy to understand, a little tough to work with...
Married. Zoe Ann Olsen, 18, blonde Olympic aquastar, holder of 14 national diving championships; and Jack. Jensen, 22, University of California All-America (1948) fullback and minor league baseball player (he was bought last week by the New York Yankees, got a $15,000 a year contract and a $35,000 bonus); in Oakland, Calif...
...protect custody and booked for illegal possession of arms at the Cambridge Police Station. George T. Cobb, 18 of Ox Bow, Wayland, who possessed the real gun, was released on $100 bail. Police will not disclose the other man's name, as he is a minor. He was turned over to his parents...