Word: quiets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...quartet's diminutive first tenor, Brown, has quiet tastes, plays a little cooncan and setback, mostly just "cheers himself with his family." But stocky Bass Bryant, Second Tenor Davis and Baritone David secretly cherish ambitions to be movie stars. All used to be farmers. Last month Tenor Brown saw his first football game. Uncertain how to behave, he noticed that the other spectators all held their mouths open. So he opened his. Accidentally getting too close to a goal post, he got severely bumped, still carries a bruise or two. Says Tenor Brown: "God help a football game...
Youngest child of elderly parents, Eliot at Harvard was tense, sensitive and reserved. His Advocate contemporaries say he was English in everything but accent and citizenship. His remarks were quiet, witty, precise but not precious. He smoked a pipe, liked to be alone, carefully avoided slang, and dressed with the studied carelessness of a future dandy...
Last week Lou Ruppel got a new job far removed from the din of replating. On December 28 he becomes publicity director of Columbia Broadcasting System.* His successor at the Times: quiet, serious Newseditor Rowland Wood...
...former Isabelle Lauder Cochrane of Boston), Britishers through his education (he was graduated as an electrical engineer from Birmingham University, worked for a time in the English Westinghouse plant at Manchester), Reporter Cortesi has spent the last 17 of his 41 years covering Italy for the Times, prefers quiet meals at home to dining out in smart places. "His only objections to alcohol," according to a friend, "are those dictated by his kidneys...
...died last September, was Commander Francis Wilton Reichelderfer, U. S. N., an able, earnest meteorologist whose experiences include flying in Navy airplanes, dirigibles and racing balloons, taking part in the search for Amelia Earhart, furnishing weather information (from Lisbon) for the historic transatlantic flight of the NC-4. Quiet, matter-of-fact, Commander Reichelderfer likes dancing, music, an occasional cocktail, spends much time reading up on new developments in weather science...