Reply #41: Here's another 3 politicians and one orchestra conductor. All boys.

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Toscanini

Review - GHCD 2232_33 Toscanini All Mozart 1946
... sound more humane than the often brittle and hard-driven Forties performances. ... Toscanini's broadcast and recording differ from each other in tiny ...
www.guildmusic.com/histori/Reviews/rev2233z.htm -

Rudy Giuliani

The Heretik : 2006 : June
Mostly the perception of Giuliani as a brittle, vindictive, divisive mayor. Something is not quite right. There probably are any number of cons sitting in ...
theheretik.us/2006/06/ -

LBJ-era politician profiles

Peace Corps Online | April 4, 2004 - PCOL Exclusive: Jack Vaughn ...
Further, the President came across as brittle and quite dispirited. .... Unfortunately, Lyndon Johnson didn't have the daring to scrap it. ...
peacecorpsonline.org/messages/ messages/2629/2020588.html –

Ulysses S. Grant

Father Abraham: Lincoln's Relentless Struggle to End Slavery - Google Books Result
by Richard ( Striner - 2006 - Biography & Autobiography - 320 pages
Union troops under General Ulysses S. Grant were dispatched to Kentucky only ... First, his bravado was nothing more than a brittle veneer to conceal a ...