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...every student's desk at Edgewood hangs a brand-new gas mask, product of a factory on the reservation where 2,000 women workers hem, stitch and vulcanize masks for the expanding Army. The masks hang in the classroom both as symbols and instruments of instruction. Edgewood's students are there to learn more than how and when to don a gas mask. Of the lethal gases they learn that chlorine, phosgene and diphosgene attack a man's lungs, are soon blown away. More deadly are mustard and lewisite, which hang in wooded areas for days...
This is the beginning of a symphony concert-but what a concert! Illustrated by Walt Disney; written by Bach, Beethoven, Stravinsky, Dukas, Tchaikovsky, Mussorgsky, Schubert; conducted by Stokowski; master-of-ceremonied by Deems Taylor; played by the Philadelphia Orchestra. Mickey and Stokowski together put on a brand...
...ladder and two leather buckets for the bucket brigade, Chief Gutheim points out that in the 41 years of fire fighting which he can remember Cambridge has always been rated A-1 by the underwriters. This has been accomplished "despite what we have to work with"; namely, an almost brand new $275,000 plant including even the latest in patented tulip-trap-door poles for the men to slide down. In fact, the only bit of equipment which the chief would like to add at the moment is a "shillalah" to crack automatically the skull of anyone sending...
...also heard them when the reeds were sloppy, the brass worse, and when the soloists just didn't feel like playing. Yet even in these moments of inconsistency, they have managed to turn out a brand of music that's hard to beat in any league. And the reason for this is the Base drive, that elusive rhythmic quality that makes the orchestra at once aggressive and relaxed. They have been accused of playing noises, but this isn't true. There's a clear-cut distinction between a band that screams because it's expected to and a band that...
...Department chairman expects an even sharper decline in the amount of written work. To correct papers intelligently, and to give undergraduates valuable advice about their preparation, a rare brand of assistant is required. With departmental budgets declining and the College saddled with straight-jacket tenure rules, many would-be teachers probably will not stay here long enough to become expert and experienced instructors...