Word: vaughan
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Newbold Morris and the chiefs of the Administration. But it was a spectacle, part political farce and part national humiliation, that Washington would remember. Morris launched his inquiry in his own inimitable style. He made snide remarks in public against such pets of Harry Truman as Major General Harry Vaughan. He talked loftily of starting his house-cleaning in the Department of Justice, of which he was technically a member. At the congressional hearings, he wrathfully resented personal questions seeking to clarify the part he had played and the cut he had taken in some gaudily profitable surplus tanker deals...
...poker game, in fact, took up the best part of the presidential vacation. Truman, Harry Vaughan, Press Secretary Joe Short, Air Force Aide General Robert Landry, Speechwriter Charles Murphy and the other regulars dealt the cards about 4 o'clock every afternoon. They played until 7, took time out for dinner, picked up again at 8:30 and kept going until 11 o'clock. Their game: "poverty" or "Depression" poker. Each week each player puts up $100. If he loses his hundred he continues to play on a dole, thus has a chance to win back his money...
John Davison, 1G, wrote his Violin Sonata in an appealing, pastoral style, strongly reminiscent of Vaughan Williams. The first three movements became slightly monotonous because of the similarity of their musical ideas, though this impression may be due to the uniformity of the tempi with which they were performed. In the fourth movement, Mr. Davison departs from his hitherto placid style and attempts, I think successfully, a more elaborate plan. Especially noteworthy are the many long, beautifully constructed melodies which appear in the course of this composition...
...Wallace Woodworth '24, professor of Music, will conduct the Boston Symphony Orchestra, the Harvard Glee Club, and the Radcliffe Choral Society in the second performance of a program of works by Mozart, Stravinsky, and Ralph Vaughan Williams, at Symphony Hall, at 8:30 p.m. tonight...
...Angel Gabriel? He would not, Newbold said, have appointed either man in the first place. When he was asked, "Has Vaughan been fired?" he replied, significantly, "Not yet." He was asked if he thought cabinet members who tolerated corruption should be fired. He answered: "What's so wonderful about a cabinet member?" He waxed sarcastic when someone wanted to know why Truman had ordered the cleanup drive. "Who," he intoned, "is to know whether the Angel Gabriel appeared to the President...