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Concern for God. Along with this concern for man, Congregationalists at Durham showed a renewed concern for God. Of late, Congregational interest in human affairs has moved divine affairs a little into the background. There is, for instance, no mention of God in the theological preamble to the present (1931) Congregational constitution. Dr. Douglas Horton, who serves as secretary both of the whole church and of its theological commission, summed up this new feeling...
Assuming that college students constitute a "different" audience, in that their evenings are generally taken up with studies, the Network is continuing its policy of supplying "music as a background for studying." A classical music period, one hour and twenty-five minutes long, is scheduled to begin at ten o'clock every evening...
...series is under the joint auspices of Harvard and the World Wide Broadcasting Foundation (WRUL) which has assumed responsibility for the technical direction and advice in script preparation and radio delivery. Each speaker will express his own views as an individual on some phase of the background...
...rough stage, with the windowless cabin in the background, looked synthetic. The linsey-woolsey costumes looked as if they had just come out of attic trunks. But the music—the singing, fiddling and twanging of guitars, banjos and dulcimers—was the real McCoy: mountain music, with rough edges as unpolished as stones. On the hills near Ashland, Ky., country folk and tourists gathered this week for Ashland's twelfth annual American Folk Song Festival...
Strictly Instrumental (Harry James; Columbia). A persuasive, iterated phrase, and some neat jiving by the newest top-flight band, serve as background to Harry James's fluttering trumpet, as coy as Mickey Mouse...