Word: vocalizer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...story of Sims lively reading during World War II. His son-in-law, Elting E. Morison, has written it in Admiral Sims and the Modern American Navy (Houghton, Mifflin; $5), published last week. For 30 years the great voice of public self-analysis in the Navy, Sims was highly vocal and knew it. But "never did he discover the difference between rapping for attention and knocking his audience cold." Out of Annapolis in 1880, Sims spent his first six years at sea in silence, then settled down to improving the Navy. His main theme was a continuous assault...
Although Sims never won his main objective, his vocal technique did achieve many smaller ones-enough to assure his place in naval history even though he was never under fire. He began by criticizing battleships. In 1900 the U.S. Navy, in Sims's opinion, was far behind European navies, even Japan's ("and, God help our souls," Russia...
...Crimson Network had been making an all out effort for the past week to obtain Hildegarde, who is at present singing at the Copley Plaza. Hildegarde, known as "the dear that made Milwaukee famous," is as much known for her looks as for her vocal attainments and members of the Crimson Network are afraid that listeners will make the best part of the show...
Kilsoo K. Haan, U.S. representative of both the admittedly revolutionary Korean National Front Federation and the Sino-Korean Peoples' League, is Korea's most vocal Washington spokesman. He is short and 42; he wears rimless spectacles and is given to loud, figured ties. He is often heard, seldom heeded. But last week Kilsoo Haan came into...
Opera is fantastically expensive to mount. Like a department store, it combines many things under one roof: symphony orchestra, vocal stars, theater, ballet, chorus. The expense ($6,500 to $13,000 a performance) necessitates high-priced tickets (a $7.70 top last year). Even so the Met must average an 88% full house to break even...