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...much as a break. Instead of the shimmering wit of a Mozart or Haydn, they had familiar noisy devices from Shostakovich's tumultuous hour-long Seventh and Eighth symphonies. In the frail little Ninth, the whooping brasses and bassoon cadenzas were like 16-in. guns mounted on a PT boat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Shostakovich in the Berkshires | 8/5/1946 | See Source »

Married. George Vanderbilt, 31, multimillionaire sportsman, explorer, big-game hunter, ex-PT boat commander; and Anita Zabala Howard, 41; both for the second time; at Arcadia, the Vanderbilt plantation in Charleston...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jul. 29, 1946 | 7/29/1946 | See Source »

...opening campaign speech, young Jack Kennedy recalled a promise he had made when he was a PT-boat skipper in the Solomons. Said he: "When ships were sinking and young Americans were dying ... I firmly resolved to serve my country in peace as honestly as I tried to serve it in war." His method of serving was to try for Congress as a Democrat from Massachusetts' Eleventh District...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Promise Kept | 7/1/1946 | See Source »

Married. Byron Raymond ("Whizzer") White, 28, brainy onetime Colorado halfback (All-America 1937) and Rhodes scholar, lately a PT-boat skipper, now a law student at Yale; and Marion Stearns, 24, ex-WAVE daughter of University of Colorado President Robert L. Stearns; in Boulder, Colo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jun. 24, 1946 | 6/24/1946 | See Source »

...Frank contributed goals to the Harvard cause, but the Crimson defense could not halt the well-coordinated Jumbo first team attack which scored almost at will. Next Saturday the team will open its season against Deerfield Academy at Deerfield. The starting lineups: Harvard Tufts Shubert, g. g., Owens Graham, pt. pt., Allen Jessop, c. pt. c. pt., Irwin Louria, 1d. 1d., Hayward Lange, 2d. 2d., Robertson Wood, c. c., Rich Borg, 2a. 2a., McNeil Richards, 1a. 1a., Meryman Baker, o.h. o.h., Lorimer Trinkle, l.h. l.h., Sigler

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Stickmen Outpaced In Tufts Scrimmage | 4/16/1946 | See Source »

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