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Most of the important organ stops nestle in the new Aeolian-Skinner console. There is a flute celeste, chimney flute, vox humana, piccolo, harp. But there are two manuals against most organs' four and the 427 pipes fit into a nine-by-six-foot closet. The new organ costs $6,000, a new low for full-scale electrically reproducing instruments. It will play any and all of Aeolian's famed $750,000 library of organ rolls-costing $2 to $10 each...
...Angelo, Tex., A. W. Billingsley, deputy U. S. marshal, searched for a fugitive all day. That night he dreamed he found him. Waking, he dressed, went to the place of his dream, found his man crouching in a closet...
...cost of a sanitary closet will be much less than your doctor's bill, if without...
...Manhattan, where gold is not kept loose in one extensive vault but divided among what amounts to steel closets in the Federal Reserve bullion room, two closets had been prepared containing exactly $95,550,000 worth of Federal Reserve gold. At 10 a. m. Manhattan time the Old Lady of Threadneedle Street cabled to say in bankers' jargon that she had "earmarked" (with her white tags) $95,550,000 of Bank of England gold, thereby making it the property in London of the Federal Reserve. Promptly the Federal Reserve sent a blue-clad, barrel-chested guard to tie onto...
...ambitious concentrator in English there is probably no more lamentable departmental weakness than that long inherent in the treatment of dramatic literature. Emphasis is placed on private silent reading of plays, even though, except for closet drama, such a method of study can hardly do full justice to the works or give the student a complete appreciation of the playwright's art. Unfortunately, the more satisfactory systems of dramatic study, reading plays aloud or acting them simply in groups, cannot be officially included in a technique of instruction based on written examinations. The initiative must obviously lie with undergraduates...