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...repertories, he sees an almost endless future in recording. Under the name "Guy Sherwood," for instance, he appears in a radio series on which he plays numbers such as Kitten on the Keys, for which he has deftly recorded first the left-hand part, then the right-hand part (played with the left hand). When the whole thing is glued together, De Groot sounds like his old two-handed self playing like sixty...
When he considered his right-hand punch, Ingemar Johansson spoke in terms of muted and mystical awe that such a thing could be. "The arm works by itself," said he. "It is faster than the eye. When I hit any man, he cannot stand...
...Karl Compton, who first aimed M.I.T. toward real scientific eminence, Stratton taught electrical engineering and physics, won wide respect for his wartime radar research and later for his administrative abilities in organizing the institute's Research Laboratory of Electronics. Under President (now Board Chairman) Killian, who made him right-hand man, Stratton engineered an important reform: raising the departments of humanities and social sciences to equal rank with the institute's other professional schools. Today M.I.T.'s curriculum spans the whole range of man's "technology," from politics to psychology, from international relations to interstellar space...
...imminent departure persisted. If he is really bent on getting out, he would want to hand-pick his successor. Likely candidates: respected ex-President Francisco Higino Craveiro Lopes, known as "The Man Who Never Smiles," and strapping (6 ft. 2 in.) Pedro Teotonio Pereira, Salazar's right-hand man and current Minister of the Presidency. Pereira once quarreled with Salazar but has since made his peace with him. Both men are considered more liberal than Salazar...
...addition to rebuilding the interior of the building at 9 Prescott St., contractors will modernize and slightly alter the club. Plans call for a new dining room one-third larger than the former one and a modern office in the right-hand room on the ground floor...