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...York Philharmonic-Symphony (Sun. 3 p.m., CBS) opens its ninth radio season with Carl Maria von Weber's Der Freischütz Overture, Jean Sibelius' The Swan of Tuonela, The Return of Lemmin-käinen, Igor Fedorovitch Stravinsky's suite from The Fire Bird, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Adagio and Fugue for Strings, Ludwig van Beethoven's Fifth Symphony, John Barbirolli conducting...
While she was being sentenced to 60 days, word came that a posse had got Jim Godwin. Hefty, heartbroken Lulu Belle wept again. That report was false, but after Bill Wilson lost his nerve, sneaked away and squealed, they did get Godwin, subdued him with a load of bird shot in the face. He still swore he had planned to come back for Lulu Belle and go straight -after he had robbed enough gas stations. Lulu Belle, out on $200 bail and hiding her fat red face at home, didn't believe him this time. She had found...
...shells, blennies, opaleyes, nudibranchs and other odd forms of life he writes about. In the Galapagos Islands, in Bermuda or on the Gulf of California; everything reminds Naturalist Beebe of the teeming variety of life and the consistency of its patterns of struggle; in the stomach of a sea bird he finds a half-digested fish, with a smaller fish in its stomach, while mud from the bottom of the sea turns out to be writhing with worms, crabs, starfish, urchins, snails, serpent-stars and heretofore unknown species. Not his best book, Zaca Venture presents the most crowded world...
...roader is New York City's little Fiorello H. LaGuardia. who is financing Relief expenditures through an emergency sales tax, lately turned down a proffered PWA $2,700,000. explaining that he found it cheaper to finance necessary improvements privately. Last week Dun & Bradstreet's Frederick Bird gave municipal financiers a warning, a yardstick...
Meanwhile, Benny Bufano was finishing a two-year job of revising and refining his model of St. Francis. Last week he disclosed it to TIME photographers. Unlike the original model, it showed the saint beardless and smiling, and the bird bath which once was planned for the top of St. Francis' head had been removed. San Franciscans who consider Sculptor Bufano's stainless steel and granite figure of Sun Yat-sen the finest statue in the city (TIME, Nov. 22, 1937) were wondering last week what this symmetrical mass will look like when 156 ft. high (five feet...