Word: quartetting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...uncomfortable Herbert Hoover being photographed with three groups of visitors whose identity he asked about. "Morticians," Starling wrote on a card. With a typical fumble of the administration. Hoover was introduced to "five hundred bricklayers." There is Franklin Roosevelt listening to Presidential Secretary Marvin Mclntyre and his White House quartet singing over the radio and then calling the station to offer Mclntyre a fat contract. "Who the hell are you?" asked the President's secretary. "I'm the advertising manager for Cascarets," said the President of the United States...
Nevertheless, the coach cautions against run-away hopes, although the quartet will probably make a good showing. "If there were not such a scarcity of men out for track, there might be more than four competing," he adds...
Harry S. Truman, only recently elected to the Society for the Preservation and Encouragement of Barber Shop Quartet Singing in America, Inc., 'was made an honorary member of the Philharmonic-Symphony Society of New York...
Taking a third place Saturday according to comparative times at the Melrose AA track meet in Madison Square Garden, a Crimson relay quartet gave considerable cheer to its few supporters in the stands when it took first in its own heat with a time...
Harry S. Truman won life membership in the Society for the Preservation and Encouragement of Barber Shop Quartet Singing in America...