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...summer when he was placed in charge of CCC work in Vermont. After graduating from Camp Knox School of Instruction in 1920 he spent the following year there as instructor. At the University of Chicago he was an instructor of the ROTC unit, and "in charge of the largest bass drum in the world...
Early this year in Washington, Emil Hurja and Theodore Huntley began to bet. Mr. Hurja, a prime political dopester in his own right, is Postmaster General Farley's second-in-command at Democratic National headquarters. "Ted" Huntley, a pompous little ex-Washington correspondent with an amazing bass voice, is the arch-Republican secretary of Pennsylvania's arch-Republican Senator David Aiken Reed...
...chiseled pattern, an unmistakable mood built from a variety of inflections. Like Helen Morgan she likes to sit on the piano, flutter her hands. But she is as likely to pace the stage, act out each phrase. Like Libby Holman she can get her voice down to a guttural bass. But for finesse this Parisienne, now in her early 30's, has no peer among U. S. torchsingers...
...radio college" could claim Irene Beasley who at the National Electrical & Radio Exposition in Manhattan last week was crowned Queen of Radio for 1934. As a child in Whitehaven. Tenn., she used to play the bass while her 85-year-old grandmother played the treble. When she grew to a gangling 5 ft., 10 in., she started vocal lessons, hoped only to cultivate poise. But singing obsessed her even when she started school-teaching. Her radio début was over Memphis Station WMC. For two years she sang free in Chicago. Then Columbia Broadcasting System gave her a contract...
Sirs: ... If you insist upon likening Warren William's profile to a fish, why pick out a carp [TIME, Sept. 3]? A pickerel, which has been glorified by the automobile manufacturers in the last two years, would have served much better. Or a trout! Or a bass! Warren, born and reared in the game fish region of Northern Minnesota, could hardly look like a carp . . . as there are few of this undesirable species in Northern Minnesota's sky-blue waters. . . . Warren is acquainted only with the better class of fish- real finny beauties...