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...secretary to Provost Buck, Miss Verna C. Johnson supervises the work of the office and acts as a liaison between the Provost and the departments for Mr. makes all the arrangements for Mr. Buck's schedule and supervises the records of corporation actions and faculty appointments...
Eighteen months ago, she graduated from the caramel stage with a concert debut in her home town of Pesaro, began touring Italy, Scandinavia and Spain. This winter, Ettore Verna, a friend of her father's conservatory days, now teaching singing in Manhattan, arranged for Anna's first trip...
...Guilty. Finding the cause of the fire did not take long. Among the rescued inmates was Nicholas A. Verna Jr., an antiaircraftman at Salerno beachhead, who had got combat decorations and a head wound in World War II and returned to civilian life with a case of pyromania. With nine cases of arson on his record, Verna had been confined to Belle-Vista by the Veterans Administration. Confronted by investigators, Verna confessed that he had wandered into the basement and set fire to a towel near a laundry chute. "I got a sick feeling and had to do something...
...twelve years, sometimes collaborating with his writer wife, Verna Arvey ("she takes over where I fail to function"), he has toiled away on the composition of seven operas. A slight, sloe-eyed man whose hobby is turning out toys for his two children, he even fashioned miniature sets for his operas in his Los Angeles home. Some of the operas he junked as not good enough, but he saved four. A few years ago, the Metropolitan turned down his favorite, Troubled Island, with a libretto by Negro Poet Langston Hughes, because it called for something the Met couldn...
...VERNA T. WRIGHT Saco, Mont...