Word: softspoken
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...stood for Arthur Sears Henning, the Trib's softspoken, acid-penned Washington bureau chief. He had been in Washington since 1909 and had seemed as permanent as the Washington Monument. But six years ago, ailing Correspondent Henning had turned over the actual running of the Trib's eleven-man bureau to pudgy, bouncing Walter Trohan, 46. Last week, at 72, Henning turned over the title of bureau chief as well...
...voice choked with emotion, softspoken, honest Adelard Godbout told a radio audience that he "bowed to the decision." He would retire from politics to his Frelighsburg farm. Almost everyone was sorry to see him go, even those who thrilled to the name-calling that Duplessis reveled in. As Adelard Godbout put it privately: "This business is too dirty...
...Antarctic is no place for amateurs; and softspoken, leathery Finn Ronne is no amateur. His father was with Roald Amundsen when he discovered the South Pole; and Ronne, brought up in the mountains of Norway, first went to the Antarctic with Rear Admiral Byrd in 1933. When he goes back in a year or two ("There is a lure . . ."), Mrs. Ronne will not be with him. Says she: "Why, I didn't wear a dress the whole time I was there. The next time, I stay home...
...appointment was just as surprising to the new headmaster, shy, softspoken, young (35) Lieut. Colonel John Mason Kemper, deputy chief of the Army's Historical Division. Until Andover's trustees penetrated the labyrinthine Pentagon to proposition him, Colonel Kemper was a convinced career soldier. Says he: "I've never known anything else...
...this has made a key man of the radio recording engineer. And at the top of this man's world is a woman: softspoken, 35-year-old Mary Howard. Arturo Toscanini, like many another perfectionist, believes that she makes the best U.S. recordings, bestows on her one of his rare accolades: "She does a good...