Word: vaughn
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Robert Montgomery Presents (Mon. 9:30 p.m., NBC). Stand-in Bride, with Vaughn Taylor, Margaret Hayes...
Robert Montgomery Presents (Mon. 9:30 p.m., NBC). Summer Story, with Vaughn Taylor and John Newland...
...these were extremes; the more substantial numbers on the program included Enesco's. Roumanian Rhapsody No. 1, Vaughn Williams' Fantasia on "Greensleeves," and Sibelius' Finlandia (the last complete with the popping of champagne corks during the dramatic pauses of the opening section). Rossini's overture to La Gazza Ladra (The Thieving Magpie) showed off the orchestra's first-rate woodwind section. And an arrangement of Cry proved to be a hilarious satire, with quotations from several symphonic works, imitations of whimpering by the trumpets and growling by the horns, and a most realistic baby cry--by a member...
...underwent its most trying days. In 1941 approximately 70,000 men were using the building, but by 1943 the figure had jumped to 426,000--under their compulsory physical training program the armed services units stationed at Harvard marched their men in by the company. Frank Vaughn, the present superintendent of the building, was at that time a very successful swimming instructor and trainer, but long hours of work with service units so damaged his voice that he had to give up teaching completely...
...like one big happy family, living up there on the basketball court," one old-timer recalls. Freshmen practicing fire escapes down ropes were a disturbing influence at times, but some men actually wanted to keep on living on the balcony when there was room elsewhere, according to Vaughn...