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...period consists of delving in a heap of sand to unearth a collection of bones previously planted there by an instructor. Once in a while the prospective ditch-diggers go farther afield for their exploits than their little piles of sand. Last spring, for instance, they excavated a colonial cellar in Concord...
...three other ways of helping Italy suggested themselves: 1) a drive from the west coast of France, down across submissive Spain, at Gibraltar; 2) sending troops from Hitler's pool of 1,000,000 men in Austria (see map) to put some spine into the Italian armies now afield; 3) sending troops from the smaller pool in Rumania, to attack Greece from the rear across Bulgaria...
Last week the Black Hills Players were on their first extended tour (by automobile) of big U. S. cities, as far afield as New Orleans. Into the Minneapolis Municipal Auditorium they drew audiences of 4-5,000. Josef Meier, as usual, played the Christus. His wife, a former Chicago girl, Clare Hume, was a handsome Mary. Their two-year-old daughter Johanna, who had the sniffles at one performance, was the infant Jesus. No applause was permitted during the play, while Meier was realistically crucified with trick nails, while he was resurrected in white satin. Nor was there any applause...
...foreign-name maestros who lead U. S. symphony orchestras, the most typically, most restlessly American is a British-born Irish-Pole: Leopold Antony Stokowski. Bored with the daily routine of polishing up well-known classics, Stokowski long ago jumped the fence of the conventional musical pasture and wandered far afield. He rewrote symphonic oomph into Bach fugues, started adding weird electrical instruments to his orchestra, played the Communist Internationale at a Philadelphia symphony concert. When, four years ago, Stokowski retired from the chief conductorship of the Philadelphia Orchestra and went to Hollywood to make movies, Philadelphia conservatives sighed with relief...
Like the Bryans, Publisher Slover had other interests-real estate, banks, the Norfolk & Western Railway, the Cavalier Hotel at Virginia Beach. But Richmond was far afield. For a time the Times-Dispatch did not do so well as the News Leader, but in recent years, under Mark Foster Ethridge (now general manager of the Louisville Courier-Journal} and his successor, lean, hawk-nosed John Dana Wise, the Times-Dispatch got back on its feet. Last year, with a circulation of 82,176, it was not far behind the News Leader...