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...appeared in Laurence Stallings' and Maxwell Anderson's What Price Glory? This time, in the guise of burly, hard-voiced Edmund Lowe and hulking, grim-visaged Victor McLaglen (who enacted the cinema roles), they appear not in the old story, but in a new radio serial, a brisk, jaunty half-hour show on NBC's network (Sunday 7:30 p.m. E.S.T...
Meadville was still boom, not ghost town. Farmers backed their trucks into the market square, did a brisk business in tomatoes, pale green roasting ears, cucumbers, cantaloupes, bright yellow squash. On Saturday there was no parking space to be found in front of the clothing stores and banks on Chestnut Street. Young factory workers jitterbugged until 2 a.m. in juke-box honky-tonks. Lights burned all night in Talon's plants; change of shifts at 2:30 p.m., 11 p.m. and 6 a.m. involved a major traffic problem...
...mammoth hangars skirting the vast bare landing field. Now, just six months later, the arid newness is gone. Grass grows beside the streets, palm and pine spot the once dusty table land. The 200 cadets who stream in each month from the odds & ends of civilian life see a brisk hustle of officers and trainees in their khaki service uniforms or bright whites. That first look shows them that they have come into a new way of living...
...Seven Last Words of Christ.* Joseph Haydn furnished an orchestral introduction for these discourses, seven slow interludes, a brief finale. Even without the religious connotations, the Words of Our Saviour on the Cross were a string of exceptionally beautiful Haydn slow movements. But the finale was a little brisk, almost jolly, in view of the fact that it was meant to describe the earthquake after the death of Christ...
...opened a booking office. He formed a Clef Club of Negro jazzmen, gave a concert in Carnegie Hall in 1911. He (at the piano) and his boys played for Vernon and Irene Castle. Once he excited the Castles' curiosity by playing Memphis Blues too slow for their brisk one-step. That, said Jim Europe and his friends, was how the fox trot started...