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Henry Lamar can't see himself as a Varsity football coach. "I'm still an assistant," he says, "filling in for the loss. Dick Harlow, until he comes house." And then the softspoken, well-liked "assistant" goes on about his business of "assisting" by whipping together a bunch of green youngsters into a tough, precision eleven representative of the Crimson...
Martinu's music got a fine critical reception. Though he inherits the great Czech tradition of Bedrich Smetana and Antonin Dvorak, Martinu does not work in their sunlit, melodically fecund vein. The emotional tone of his music is measured, but it has genuine dignity, drama and decided individuality. Softspoken, shy, 52-year-old Martinu grew up in the little Czech town of Policka, where his father was a shoemaker, played the violin for a decade with the famed Czech Philharmonic Orchestra of Prague. In 1923 he went to Paris, stayed for nearly 20 years. A very serious...
Engaged. British Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur William Tedder, 53, the invasion's softspoken, bird-faced bombing strategist; and Mrs. Marie Black, organizer of R.A.F.-men's Malcolm Clubs in Algiers and Tunisia; in Algiers. His first wife died in an air crash near Cairo last January...
Farm-raised Pauline, who majored in physical education at Penn State ('42) and was badminton champion of the college, is no tomboy. Softspoken, modest, Pauline was prompted to step into her mannish role because she likes kids and knew what a letdown a football-less fall would be for them. Salina's grownups were pleased enough at being put on the map, but were somewhat skeptical of Pauline's prospects...
...arrived. The young captain in command of the battalion jumped into the destroyer, charged to the top of the hill, toward the tanks. His men did not expect him to return. He drove off the remaining tanks, and he came back. His battalion regrouped, advanced, eventually seized Niscemi. Softspoken, black-haired, tired, unconsciously heroic, the captain met Correspondent Belden. Belden said: "I hear you got some tanks yourself...