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...parson on the street and becoming involved in theological argument, became so annoyed that he promised to perform a miracle: he would cause the Garden of Eden to be transported wherever the Anglican parson wished, at precisely 11:30 the following night. Next evening they met; the parson chose Bass Rock, a little island some 20 miles away; Father Malachy prayed; the deed was done...
...their Paris reception. Always in the press spotlight was big, breezy, beetle-browed George Baker, Mayor of Portland, Ore. and chairman of the delegation of 25 executives. At a banquet at Dinard, Mayor Baker grandly announced that he would adopt a five-year-old French orphan who played the bass drum in a church band which entertained the visitors. When he found he could not take the boy home with him, Mayor Baker promised to send him $50 per year. Not to be outdone by this Portlandish gesture, Henri Prince, representing New York's Mayor Walker, proclaimed adoption...
...crass outsider did not comprehend this Latin irony, the Cambridge Union was cosily content. Soon with even heavier irony a Cambridge lightweight rose to defend Chicago. Small, spindly Debater Robert Egerton Swartwout (he weighs 105 Ib.) boomed out in an amazing bass voice. The same voice last year barked the Cambridge crew to victory over Oxford (TIME, April 21, 1930). Swartwout was Cambridge's first U. S. coxswain. Son of Manhattan Architect Egerton Swartwout, he went to Cambridge (Trinity College) seven years ago, became a wit, contributed to Punch. Also he developed the ironic humor that is the pride...
...spite of the applause which greeted the assertion that the remedy for political evils lies not in the red flag, but in the ballot box, and in spite of the fervor with which the bass drummer accompanied the singing of "The Internationale," neither the man of property nor the apostles of Lenin could glean much satisfaction from the proceedings. For none of the uniformed officers interfered with communist speakers, although outnumbering the twenty-nine avowed communists by almost three to one, they might have mastered them without machine-guns. And none of Moscow's emissaries attempted to heckle Mr. Fish...
...events, from the coronation of the late Tsar through the Russo-Japanese War to the Bloody Sunday (Jan. 22, 1905) in St. Petersburg?the dress-rehearsal for the 1917 Revolution. Recognizably real figures hover on the edges of the action: Lenin, Trotzky; you hear Feodor Ivanovitch Chaliapin's mighty bass lifted in revolutionary song in a Moscow restaurant...