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...Author. Audrey Wurdemann's first book of verse was published before she was 16, sponsored by the California poet, George Sterling. Born in Seattle, she graduated from the University of Washington in 1931, married Poet Joseph Auslander (The Winged Horse) in 1933, now lives in Manhattan. Tall, slender, black-haired, she is extremely shy, likes to cook and run her home, does not believe that poets must necessarily be temperamental or that they require a room of their own before their inspirations can flower...
...Orient Express," hints that he has taken part in the activity of the organization he describes. Noting his detailed account of conspiratorial methods, it is a likely conclusion that den Doolard did not get his knowledge of them exclusively from books. The story revolves around Milja Drangov, slender, striking, brown-eyed daughter of a famed leader of the movement for Macedonian independence. Her father was killed in a futile uprising against the Turks soon after her birth. With her mother, she was swept over the border in the tide of refugees, eventually adopted by a Serbian family, educated, became...
...Russian choruses are essentially the same. Individual voices have a natural, intrained quality. In a well-disciplined ensemble they blend to make sure-fire effects, attain nostalgic softness, rise to mighty crescendoes. Leader of the Moscow Cathedral Choir is slender, personable Vicolas Afonsky, a Tsarist army officer. The featured soloist is Kapiton Zaporojetz a massive basso profundo whom the Tsar's young daughters used to call "that rosy milk-fed piglet." Conductor Afonsky did his job in a quiet, self-effacing way last week. Basso Zaporojetz emitted cavernous tones to enrich the ensemble. But the best solo work...
...bright promise of solving the distance problem, however, appeared when American Telephone & Telegraph Co.'s experimental laboratories produced the coaxial cable. This consists essentially of two hollow copper tubes with a slender copper wire running through the centre of each, the whole insulated and sheathed in a lead case. Developed primarily as a telephone improvement (it transmits 240 messages simultaneously), it can also handle a frequency band 1,000,000 cycles wide, is able thus to transmit the fluctuating lights & shadows of television. With this cable it would be possible to "pipe" a televised program all over...
...ablest consular officers the U. S. ever had. He served at Shanghai, Chefoo, Dairen, Tientsin, Newchang, Swatow. Chungking and Foochow. He mastered Chinese dialects, Japanese, Russian. At Christmas 1921 he was moved to Harbin in troublesome Manchuria, a consular post he occupied for 13 years. Never a slender tea-party diplomat but a hearty 250-lb. Yankee, he did business in an effective Yankee fashion...