Word: van
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hazel H. Whitaker, a Fort Wayne schoolteacher, social worker and newspaperwoman. Children (by his first wife): Arthur H. Vandenberg Jr., 40, a bachelor and his father's longtime secretary; Mrs. John Bailey, 38, of Battle Creek, Mich.; Mrs. Edward Pfeiffer, 36, of Huntington, N.Y. Church: Congregational. Nicknames: Van (to his friends), Pops (to his wife...
...Club began to wither after the successful '38-39 season and went into a serious decline which led to its virtual disappearance during the War. Under the leadership of Nicholas Van Slyck '46, however, the group made a vigorous and successful comeback beginning in January 1946 with Assistant Professor Irving Fine '37 as faculty adviser and conductor...
...performs the Bach Triple Concerto in A-Minor for flute, violin, and piano, and Mozart's Divertimento in D. There is no record of performance for either of these compositions. Also sched- uled on the program are the Handel Oboe Concerto in B Flat and the first performance of Van Slyck's Sonatine for Clarinet and Strings. The orchestra will be under the direction of Van Slyck and the soloists include: Uni Springing, violin; flutist, Lois Schaefer, a frequent performer with the Boston Symphony; Wade Fite 1G, oboe, and Noel Lee '46, piano
...quality, financial troubles delayed the next issue for nearly a year. The fifth Wake, a 90-page number devoted entirely to works and criticism of E. E. Cummings, came out in the spring of 1946. In addition to Cummings, John Dos Passos '16, Theodore Spencer, Wallace Stevens, and Mark Van Doren contributed. Copies of the issue, which sold over 2000 in the U.S. and Europe, are now collectors' items...
...much of Lindsay & Grouse's dialogue disappeared, and the cutting edge was flaked off; 2) the gadfly-buzz of the play's action slowed to a snore. To sustain the illusion of interest, Wonder-Worker Capra relied on a blaze of star-power: Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn, Van Johnson, Adolphe Menjou, Angela Lansbury. But Tracy, as in all his recent pictures, lacks fire; Hepburn's affectation of talking like a woman trying simultaneously to steady a loose dental brace sharply limits her range of expression; Johnson, playing a Drew Pearsonish columnist, is no more effective than Pearson...