Word: writes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...eliminating. Because a person has a low I.Q. doesn't make him an "eight ball." If the spirit of the regulations were used in eliminations, then possibly the Army could get rid of some of its "deadwood" hangers on, such as the NCOs who can barely read or write or who do not have the mentality to handle a lower-ranking G.I. other than by browbeating...
Between last Monday morning and next Wednesday noon Summer School students will write 3251 three-hour exams in a dozen different rooms scattered throughout the Yard, Stanley Leonard, Summer School Registrar, predictied early this week...
...then nailed him for good after he took off once more. Said an exasperated judge, after a preliminary hearing at Hannover produced another seminar on world citizenship, no passport: "I don't care if you are the Kaiser of China; just show me your papers." Davis offered to write himself out another passport. Muttered the judge, "This man is meschugga [addled]." At week's end Davis moodily read science-fiction while awaiting trial...
...staffers that meetings intended to rally support for a "stronger, better" paper in Turin and Genoa last week broke up amid angry attacks on the party bosses by sacked employees. Said one bitter laid-off newsman: "We're all sick to death of being told what to write and what to think." So, apparently, were a lot of L'Unità's ex-readers...
...years he has played with a lot of big outfits-Boyd Raeburn, Jimmy Dorsey, Woody Herman, Buddy Rich, Garwood Van, Spade Cooley. When Giuffre got out of the Army, he enrolled at the University of Southern California, became interested in Bartok, Hindemith, Shostakovich, Prokofiev. He began to write "linear" music, in which he tried to keep the rhythm section ("It should be felt rather than heard") from conflicting with other instruments. As he sees it, the drums and bass ought to play melody too, not just accompaniment, and then give way to the others. ''Each...