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...crowded gymnasium of Louisiana State University in booming Baton Rouge, Louisiana's State Democratic Convention, its first in twelve years, came awkwardly to order. The night was hot; beads of sweat stood out on Senator Allen ("Little Bull") Ellender's flushed and angry features...
...Jersey announced a new synthetic companion to its German-originated Buna-Butyl. He told his stockholders: "We are in a position to manufacture the 'butyl' rubber from petroleum in any required quantities as rapidly as the necessary plant facilities can be installed." Building now at Baton Rouge is a 10,000 Ib.-a-day Buna plant for Standard, from whom Akron's Firestone Tire & Rubber Co. has already obtained a manufacturing license...
June 2 was the 100th birthday of the English novelist Thomas Hardy. Neither in the little old town of Dorchester, where he lived, worked and died, nor in London, where his ashes rest in Westminster Abbey, was this anniversary marked so impressively as it was in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. There The Southern Review, solidest and most accomplished of U. S. literary quarterlies, devoted its summer issue entirely to essays on the work of Hardy...
Bright & early one morning last week Citizen Sam Jones got up, piled his family into an automobile, and rode through the downtown section of Baton Rouge. Ahead of him sputtered motorcycle police, behind him came the Lieutenant Governor-elect of Louisiana, the Attorney General-elect, many another bigwig, State University cadets. Crowds cheered, bands played themselves red in the face...
...Boston Pops Concerts, which, under Mr. Fiedler's lively baton, carries on nightly with overtures, semi-classical favorites, and light tone-poems. The audience listens lightly and lolls around tables guzzling beers. Tonight Mr. Fiedler's gentleman present their standard gourmand's fare. Music like Gershwin's "Rhapsody in Blue," interesting harmonically but otherwise dull, the Brahms Fifth Hungarian Dance, and the unbreakable Blue Danube Waltz, are there for those who can still bear them. Of greater relish is the delightful fantasy "Fugue and Variations on Under the Spreading Chestnut-Tree" by Weinberger, one of the sensations of the past...