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of Interview with Elisabeth Sifton Interview date: December 7,
2004  Elisabeth Sifton  LISTEN to the conversation.  Tippett:
Would you describe your father to me as a human being, as a
father, and as a person; how he looked, how he sounded, what it
was like to grow up with him.  Ms. Elisabeth Sifton: My father
was very much a German-American from the Middle West. That's
what he sounded like, and that's what he looked like. He was a
big, tall bald man  he went bald quite early in his adulthood 
very strong, very energetic, decisive looking, and decisive
sounding. He had the coloring and the build of what he was by
inheritance, that is to say, a sort of a German farmer. Like
many people in the lower Middle West he had a slightly southern
sound to his voice, which comes from Missouri and southern
Illinois I think. He was very lively. He was also  this I want
to stress because it was a ch