Word: spoken
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hendrik Oldenbroek, 52. Born in Amsterdam, he grew up in London and Hamburg, where his father, a cigarmaker, had set up shop. Beginning work at 14, as a clerk, he moved on to trade-union journalism, eventually headed the powerful International Transport Workers' Federation. A good-natured, soft-spoken labor diplomat as well as a staunch anti-Communist and a crack administrator, Oldenbroek seemed to many outsiders to be the ideal man for the job. "We are going to be efficient, in the American sense," he said last week. "That means when you want something...
...School Forum Scheduled for to right at Langdell Court has been cancelled because of the illness of W. Burton Leach '21, professor of Law. Leach, a Brigadier-General in the U.S., Army Reserve and special counsel to the air force on the B-36 investigations, was to have spoken on "The Armed Services investigation...
...seen any White House stationery bearing his name. In initialing documents, said Sherwood, Hopkins invariably wrote "H. L. H.," never "H. H." This week the House Un-American Activities Committee opened a hearing. On the stand, Racey Jordan repeated his charges; but this time said he had spoken to Hopkins only once. The committee's investigator pointed out (and the State Department acknowledged) that export licenses had been granted for shipment of some 1,500 Ibs. of uranium compounds (not the fissionable U-235) to Russia in the spring of 1943 before the Manhattan Project "cut off all sources...
Poet-Critic Lloyd Frankenberg started with a good idea. He would write a plain-spoken book to "provide a bridge to modern poetry for readers . . . brought up on prose." And since "poetry is an art of the ear's discrimination," he would persuade a record company to issue an album of readings by the poets discussed in his book. The result: this batch of essays on modern poetry and an identically titled album (Columbia, 8 sides, $4.95; or LP, $4.85) of readings by T. S. Eliot, W. H. Auden, Dylan Thomas and other modern poets...
...only with a squash racquet. His knowledge of squash technique amounted to roughly the idea that a racquet, a little black ball, and four walls could make a varsity squash player. Of course a few basic things were missing in his concept. It wasn't until after he had spoken to Coach Barnaby that he became fired with a desire to play the game, and a willingness to go through long hours of practice. Tomorrow this man will be in the starting lineup when the team journeys to Hanover to play Dartmouth...