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...William Bauer of Kingston, Ont. caught a 32-inch pike, but that was not all. Inside the pike was a large-mouthed bass, inside the bass a perch and inside the perch a minnow. Paul Maki of Port Arthur pulled a 2-lb. pickerel from Black Sturgeon Lake with a 3-lb. pike gripping the pickerel's tail...
...Prades' Church of St. Pierre in the French Pyrenees, every pew, aisle and choir stall was crammed with hushed listeners. As the last tones of Johann Sebastian Bach's Cantata for Soprano and Bass, No. 32 floated away, there was silence. Then, in an unexpected gesture, the tall, white-haired Bishop of Perpignan arose, raised his hands and gave the first clap, signaling an end to the church ban on applause. As bald little Pablo Casals bowed from the podium, the 2,000 listeners clapped so thunderously that a piece of plaster shook loose from the high roof...
...Aranea manages this was, for a long time, a puzzle to observers. Then says Author Crompton, "the secret came out." The spider simply twangs the glued tieline, as a bass fiddle player twangs the strings of his instruments. The glue is thus shaken into exactly equidistant droplets...
Change of Command. The one Santa Barbara tradition which never seemed to change was Founder Curtis Gate himself. For 40 years "the King" had taught the boys classics and the Bible, led the hymns each morning in his booming bass voice. He had been a familiar figure galloping along the riding trails in jodhpurs and long English jacket, or driving pell-mell along country roads in his old Dodge touring car. But one day last week, more than 500 Santa Barbara schoolboys, parents and alumni gathered in the school gym to hear Headmaster Gate talk about one more change...
...time, to keep her at home and well attended, Braunsdorf had four jobs-one playing the bass viol with the orchestra, one teaching music, one on a Ford assembly line, and one as registrar with Detroit Business University. The strain of such a working schedule soon began to tell. In 1942 Braunsdorf fell ill, put all his earnings in a florist shop to recoup his finances, but eventually had to sell it at a loss. Finally, he resigned himself to leaving Virginia at a private sanitarium...