Word: vaughan
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Once every two or three years there comes a concert so thrilling in content, so brilliant in execution, that it makes the entire season memorable. Such a concert was heard by the large audience in Sanders Theatre Friday night. The occasion: a premature salute to Ralph Vaughan Williams for his eightieth birthday (he won't be eighty until October...
...with alarm. They had spotted two large grey fish about four feet long pursuing a school of four-inch garfish. The Secret Service men thought the big fish, heading for the area where Truman stood, were barracuda. Truman splashed ashore. The men in the boat hauled in General Harry Vaughan, Truman's military aide, who was farther from shore (seems he's always in deep water, quipped a correspondent...
...himself. Mauldin cartoons today would not find the popularity they did in World War II. The AWOL rate is down, even the use of profanity has fallen off (at least in Stateside camps). "Little Joe" gripes about his officers, distrusts politics and government (it is universally believed that "Harry Vaughan can transfer any man"). He does not go in for heroics, or believe in them. He is short on ideals, lacks self-reliance, is for personal security at any price. He singularly lacks flame. In spite of this, he makes a good, efficient soldier-relying on superior firepower...
...Blame Me (Sarah Vaughan; M-G-M). Sarah gambols over the scale in what sounds like a big try to avoid the melody at all costs. When she does run into melody, she gives it a velvet ride...
...less than 1% of federal employees have been in any way involved in charges. The civil service has never been cleaner, never enjoyed a better reputation. The trouble is that so many of the scandals have struck so close to the top: Truman himself and the Deep Freezers, Harry Vaughan and his friends among the five-percenters, three district Collectors of Internal Revenue appointed by the President, a mink coat to a White House stenographer, a camera to a presidential secretary, and then the story of Bill Boyle...