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Largest of the strictly scientific fields, chemistry affords the most complete vocational training of any department in college. Because of efficient organization, highly qualified personnel and excellent laboratory facilities, it offers concentrators as thorough a background in chemistry as can be obtained anywhere in the country. But, by the same token, it is one of the most exacting fields. Once in the field a concentrator must take more courses of a limited nature than in any other field and must be prepared to spend on an average from two to three hours in the laboratory a week if not more...
...coming out of his guts, if you will. That's the way he sings, and that's the way he plays trombone. You'll notice it particularly if you're dancing, not paying a great deal of attention to the music, until suddenly Jack breaks out of the ensemble background for a solo. I don't mean he plays loud; anybody can do that. What makes you look up is an aggressive attack executed in a tone which by itself is something of a phenomenon. These two elements, combined with musical ideas that no other trombonist over thought of, make...
...diplomacy in Nazi-networked Bulgaria last week was hardly on the sleek side. The U. S. Minister to Bulgaria is husky, 220-lb. George Howard Earle. A deceptively sleepy-looking native of Philadelphia's archconservative "Main Line," in 1932 he shocked his background by loudly turning New Dealer, shocked it further in 1935 by becoming the New Deal's liberal Governor of Pennsylvania...
Studies in the book, apart from the budgetary research, deal with foreign trade policy in the business cycle, the now anti-trust procedure in the construction industry, the historical background of the Hatch Law, control of broadcasting in war-time, and administrative planning for national defense...
...Montemezzi's opera, written in 1913, is L'Amore del Tre Re (The Love of Three Kings). It is a chronicle of ancient tabloid-headline love: a king's wife and a handsome lover; a compassionate husband; a wise, blind, bearded oldster poking about in the background. It is old stuff to sophisticated opera fans, but Montemezzi's surging, glowing score is as Italian as ravioli, and one of the best of its kind since Verdi. Last week Composer Montemezzi made L'Amore del Tre Re an event by dishing it up, with...