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...foreign-service career 33 years ago. After studying for a law degree and practicing briefly as an architect, he entered the Foreign Service as third secretary in Madrid. Married to Mary Armour of the meatpacking family, he combined social assurance and a sure sense of protocol with an unspectacular determination to become a competent career man. In 1927 Cal Coolidge borrowed him as White House director of ceremonies, and he stayed on under Herbert Hoover as chief of protocol...
...Argent, bikinis at Biarritz and baccarat at Nice-but the provincial France of hard-scraped farms, gnarled vineyards, smudgy little factories; of closefisted small shopkeepers, scuff-knuckled farmers and black-stockinged bakers' daughters. It is a France tradition-bound, slow to change, as stolid, solid and unspectacular as the pallid, stucco-faced building in the small town of Saint-Symphorien-sur-Coise where Antoine Pinay was born 61 years ago. His father was a drygoods merchant, his mother a steel-willed matriarch who trusted sternly in God and the franc...
Wednesday night's concert, the second of three, began with a Concerto for violin, cello, and harpsichord by Couperin. Ruth Posselt, the new violinist, is the competent, unspectacular kind of performer who subordinates herself to the music at hand. Her easy-going interpretation was perfect for this comparatively light-weight work. 'Cellist Samuel Mayes, who appeared in all eight parts of the program, showed remarkable versatility. His tone was full and rich in the important solo sections, but in the later continuo passage he held himself down so that one could barely hear him over the harpsichord...
Barth's Finger. "I was thinking about infinity," says Paul Tillich, "at the age of eight." Until his 305 Tillich performed his thinking along orthodox and unspectacular lines, reflecting his strict Lutheran background in eastern Germany. After four years as a German army chaplain in World War 1, he came home to find his country in the midst of a deep revolution, cultural as well as political. The revolutionary trends were socialist and secular. To his dismay, young Pastor Tillich found that German Lutheranism made little attempt to understand these trends or to interpret them in a religious framework...
Adolphe Menjou, almost unrecognizable without his moustache and cutaway, tracks down the slayer in the unspectacular method of a common, garden variety of plain clothes...