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There was high drama in the denunciation of the Soviet Union by Britain's Hector McNeil while, beside him, Vishinsky sat, chin on hand, glowering through horn-rimmed glasses, only moving to make a penciled note or rasp a quick order over his shoulder to a subordinate. Again, there was a moment of tense comedy as McNeil (looking remarkably like Arthur Godfrey) listened with polite incredulity to Russia's Amazasp Arutiunian, whose hunch-shouldered delivery and darkling glance were strongly reminiscent of the late Fiorello La Guardia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Newer Than Baseball | 12/5/1949 | See Source »

...known to his Third Avenue customers or his nationwide radio audience as a particularly fast man with a buck. But by last week, when Duffy's Tavern (Thurs. 9:30 p.m., NBC) returned to the air, it was clear that Archie was under the smartest kind of management. Rasp-voiced Ed Gardner, who plays Archie and produces the program, had accomplished the modern miracle of getting out of the reach of the tax collector...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Call of the Islands | 10/10/1949 | See Source »

Died. Charles B. Moran, 70, longtime (1916-39) National League baseball umpire ("It ain't nothing until I call it"); of a heart ailment; in Horse Cave, Ky. A onetime big-league ballplayer (he pitched and caught for the Cardinals, 1903-08), colorful, rasp-voiced "Uncle Charley" spent his off-seasons coaching football (his Centre College, Ky. eleven beat Harvard's great 1921 grid team 6-0-), helped develop Centre's famed "Bo" McMillin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jun. 27, 1949 | 6/27/1949 | See Source »

...Patten had two years with the Lunts to perfect his Michael. His Henry Aldrich-type voice simmers down to a more mature rasp before it gets annoying, and by the time the show is over he is stealing an occasional scene from his elders. Given his fantastic American-Canadian-English lines that come up with such expressions as "jolly swell," Van Patten doesn't waste a syllable and is master of the double take. He has the difficult duty of acting a ludicrous person with a concrete and serious problem and he performs it without slipping into schizophrenia...

Author: By Rafael M. Steinberg, | Title: O Mistress Mine | 1/17/1949 | See Source »

...virtue's path, and a voice that would rasp the dead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Horrible Oaths | 9/27/1948 | See Source »

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