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...Septimus studied music almost from the cradle. "Sep" got out of the Philadelphia High School at 20, began to give lessons on the banjo, guitar and violin, and married a watchman's daughter named Hannah Guyer. He played at balls and parades, was a member of the Philadelphia Brass Band. Hit by the hard times, he wrote in his diary: "Delightful out of funds, came to the conclusion to go to the poorhouse . . . didn't like it much and concluded I'd come home, got back about 5 o'clock, found home to be the better...
Another flurry was caused by word from impressionable young reporters in Washington that General Pershing, military representative, would attend the Coronation in a gaudy $600 uniform of his own designing, consisting of an ostrich-plumed "fore & aft" hat, a frock coat embroidered with oak leaves, epaulets, brass buttons and a buff silk sash. Infuriated, General Pershing stomped up the gangway of the President Harding without ever explaining clearly to reporters that his Coronation costume was no flight of fancy but the regulation full-dress uniform of a General in the U. S. Army. Grinned Admiral Hugh Rodman, naval representative...
Accompaniment to these woodwinds of theory was the resounding brass of a world-wide market break more immediately illustrative of Mr. Saperstein's point than of Mr. Gay's. In London, where commodity prices cracked early last month after Franklin Roosevelt's pronouncement on their high levels (TIME, April 19), stock speculators rushed to sell on news of Britain's higher industrial profits tax. In New York the market slide which began in March became a small avalanche, carrying U. S. Steel common down 10 points to 98, Chrysler down 6, Allied Chemical down...
Messages of felicitation from every corner of the University were flying yesterday to the Massachusetts Avenue headquarters of a certain well-known figure in the educational world. The grievous mistake of a group of serenaders who had the brass to parade before said headquarters singing "There's no wolf around my door" has been brought to light with startling vividness with the announcement that there are now three Wolffs and an orang outang to assist delinquent students over the scholastic bumps. Whether the latest addition to Clan Wolff will be tutored by his playmate Peter or whether he will cast...
...that we cannot tell at times which is serious and which is fun." Grand Knight Ellis gave all credit for the founding of his organization to Chief Pump Knight E. Chat Shanks, NAPR's executive secretary who makes his headquarters in Milwaukee's Republican Hotel, and to Brass Nozzle Knight Wilmer...