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Also a Cure for Recession. As administrator of the 160-bed Miners' Hospital in Spangler, Pa. (pop. 3,200), Booster Haluska castigated the hospital staff ("slaughterers") for not adopting the tonic. Then he staged a "Hoxsey Day," with a parade, baton-twirling high-school girls, and a speech by Hoxsey, up from Dallas for the occasion. Hoxsey won over miners and businessmen with talk of the wealth that a Hoxsey clinic would bring to Spangler and nearby Portage, both badly hit by the recession in the coal-mining industry. Later Haluska suggested that the Miners' Hospital...
Died. Joseph E. Ransdell, 95, oldest ex-member of the U.S. Senate (TIME, May 31), Democratic Congressman (1899-1913) and Senator from Louisiana (1913-1931) until Huey Long decided in 1930 that he would rather serve the nation from Washington than from Baton Rouge; after long illness; in Lake Providence...
...conductor slammed down his baton, grumbled "auf Wiedersehen," and walked out. Leading singers caught colds in the wet July weather. Technicians scrambled to lighten the murky stage so that the audience could see more of what was going on. After six weeks of preparing the season, Wieland and Wolfgang Wagner last week raised the curtain on the opening production, their grandfather's Tannhäuser. Despite all crises, the production turned out topnotch...
...Leroy Anderson '29 who brought the second day of 25th reunion to a boisterous climax. Taking the baton after the intermission, he led "Fair Harvard" and nine of his own arrangements, including two encores. When he tried to sit down and rest between numbers, his classmates' applause refused to allow...
...restudied the passage, but when she was set to record again the red "ready" light failed to come on. The maestro threw down his arms, withdrew pouting to the side of the podium. He frowned at the stubborn bulb, but still no light. Then he reached over with his baton and tapped the bulb. It lit. The baton slashed the air, and the recording went on without a hitch...