Word: quiets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...devotee of art in the University Community, activity in the Fogg Museum is no stranger. Behind the quiet of its galleries, he sees the active aspects which the casual visitor is likely to miss, the careful arrangement of a special exhibit or intense study for a Fine Arts 13 exam, the photographing of an ancient sculpted head or the creation of a new piece of sculpture. Available to all, however, is the distinctive atmosphere of Fogg's pleasant corridors and light-bathed courtyard...
There are humorous moments, too, but unlike Hollywood's contrived chuckles, they grow out of life-as-it-is. Little Apu watches his school-master peddle rice while drilling the quiet students; he is fascinated by a cacophonous brass band that marches through the village; he sits goggle-eyed when a travelling troupe provides "culture" at the local theatre...
...With a quiet smile the gamblers slipped fresh boutonnieres into their black silk lapels and got the games going for slim crowds on the day the decree came out. Florida Mobster Santo Trafficante Jr., who attended the famous gangland congress at Apalachin, N.Y. in November 1957, is still bossing the games at the Comodoro and the Sans Souci. He also keeps an eye on the Capri casino, where his associate is Mobster Charles ("The Blade") Tourine. Gambler Joseph Silesi. wanted for questioning after the New York barbershop murder of Top Hood Albert Anastasia, is casino manager at the Hilton. None...
...Murray Snyder worked his way up from sportswriter on the San Antonio Light to political reporter for the New York Herald Tribune. Invited to the White House by Presidential Press Secretary James Hagerty in 1953, Snyder put in four years as Hagerty's assistant. He has attempted to quiet some of his critics by saying that the public information policies he follows come straight from the White House...
Last week two other quiet marriage ceremonies of seven couples were held by the small Namdhari sect of the Sikhs, who have carried on the un-Indian custom for 96 years. Any Namdhari Sikh couple has religious sanction for group marriage so long as it is conducted personally by the sect's leader, Satguru Partap Singh, 68. The cost per couple last week: $5.46. Satguru Partap is so set against pomp that in his sect a couple is excommunicated if a dowry is discovered. In 1911 he sponsored legislation sanctioning group marriage for Indians of all sects...