Word: sternly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...crisp, compelling voice said: "This is Bill Stern wishing you all a good, good night . . ." With that sign-off last week, dark, dapper Bill Stern ended the sooth program on his .Sport newsreel (Fri. 10:30 p.m., NBC) and rounded out ten years for the same sponsor, Colgate-Palmolive-Peet Co. Since few sports-comment programs ever get on a national network, and even fewer last, Stern's decade on the air is unequaled in radio's short history...
...kept his stern sense of conscience. In Paris, after a conversation with an English friend who jested broadly of the charms of the grisettes, he noted in his diary: "When I balance the attractions of good and evil, when I consider what facilities, what talents a little vice would furnish, then rise before me not these laughters, but the dear and comely forms of honour and genius and piety in my distant home, and they touch me with chaste palms moist and cold, and say to me, You are ours...
Other graduate winners were Richard G. Stern 1G, Cecil Y. Lang 3G, and Robert F. Hoopes 4G, all honorable mention...
...seemed finally in sight in the long-drawn war between the Dutch and the Indonesian Nationalists. In Batavia, the U.N. Commission for Indonesia announced a cease-fire agreement. Worn down by Nationalist guerrilla fighting and worried by Communist advances in Asia, the Dutch had finally given in to the stern resolution of the Security Council, condemning their "police action" last year...
...Name. Villon was born Gaston Duchamp. He took on the name "Jacques Villon" back in the '90s, when he was painting in secret on Montmartre and trying to convince his father, a stern notaire, that he was really attending law school. Two brothers and a sister eventually followed Jacques to Montmartre. One of them, a sculptor, called himself "Du-champ-Villon" but Suzanne and Marcel (Nude Descending a Staircase) Duchamp braved whatever wrath was left in their disappointed father and painted under their own names...