Word: somberness
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...boisterous near-riot of San Quentin's 4,000-odd convicts one somber Sunday afternoon almost twelve months ago made able Warden Clinton Truman Duffy grin with pride. Reason: the Japs had just attacked Pearl Harbor; the convicts, swarming around him in the "Big Yard," were patriotically clamoring for immediate revenge...
...broad-shouldered man with cold grey-blue eyes and a thick beard, Longstreet once told another officer: "I never felt fatigue in my life." He kept discipline among his troops and clear understandings with his subordinates. A private grief, the death of three of his children, left him a somber man and a complete soldier...
...rising from the broad athletic fields and somber halls of West Point has been "revenge" over since the fall term opened some weeks ago. But Yamashita and his henchmen are not the only targets for this military wrath, for Harvard's own Dick Harlow comes in for a major share of the determined anger of the plebes and upperclassmen...
...told more than he had ever yet told about how they are faring in World War II. The man is Tracy Strong, world director of the Y.M.C.A.'s War Prisoners Aid Committee. He is now in the U.S. on a visit from his Geneva headquarters. His news was somber but could have been much worse...
...exhibition of great art, the show was worth many times the price of admission (50?). On the somber, dignified Duveen walls were spread 15 Rembrandts, 15 of the finest of Frans Hals's broad-brushed portraits, Vermeer Van Delft's world-famed $500,000 The Milkmaid (see cut), meticulous landscapes, still lifes and street scenes by Hobbema, Jan Steen, Nicolaes Maes and dozens of minor masters...