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About all that can be said for, against and about that noble, peculiar form of art, Grand Opera, was said last week in a 603-page book entitled The Opera (Simon & Schuster; $3.75). Authors are Wallace Brockway and Herbert Weinstock, who neatly duetted the equally compendious Men of Music for the same shrewd, music-loving publishers.* In their survey of more than three centuries of opera they give some bassoon blatts to some of opera's most sacred cows (Wagner's Parsifal is largely "plain dreary"). Brockway and Weinstock ticket Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera for its less...
Others who figured in the results were: Yardling football captain Brockway, five votes; Yahoodi, Mickey Sullivan, and Mrs. Willkic, three votes each; Herbert Hoover and Langdon P. Marvin, Jr. '41, two votes each...
Among other makers of big trucks are Autocar, whose 1940 bookings already total $22,000,000, double 1939 sales. Brockway's new models include long, 55-passenger school busses, even longer tank trucks, impressive six-wheelers. New Federals include a square, unstreamlined ¾-ton unit for city deliveries, others up to 20 tons. The radiators on the new Four Wheel Drive hang so far over the front-wheels they appear dangerously near nosing-over. Another giant, Mormon-Harrington, specializes in lumber, petroleum and construction hauling. The revitalized Reo runs from one-and-a-half-ton general-purpose trucks...
...Lawrence Olin Brockway, 32, of the University of Michigan: the A.C.S. prize of $1,000 given each year to a chemist under 35 who shows unusual promise in research; for charting, by means of electron diffraction, the structures of more than 100 organic and inorganic compounds...
...Marshal Bartholomew (c) Couldn't Hear Nobody Pray (Spiritual) (Soloist: M.D. Stafford, '40) (d) Cindy (Carolina Fiddle Tune) arr. by Arthur Hall Football Medley Yale Two American Folk Songs (a) Casey Jones arr. by Edward B. Lawton, Jr., '34 (b) The Old Maid's song arr. by Howard Brockway (Soloist: H.M. Rainie, '40) Two Catches Purcell (a) I gave her cakes (b) Once, twice, thrice I Julia tried Two Choruses from The Mikado Sullivan Finale from The Gondoliers Sullivan Football Songs Harvard Bright College Years Fair Harvard Yale and Harvard