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Stokowski schemes crop thick as clover. Last week he announced that he would organize a junior orchestra, that he intended, also, to let a few of his players try conducting at the regular Orchestra rehearsals. But Philadelphia's most ambitious project this season does not limelight Stokowski. Beginning next week the Orchestra Association will give a series of operas under Conductors Fritz Reiner & Alexander Smallens...
...appetite so gluttonous that he had to be muzzled to prevent him from gobbling sticks and bits of wire. Cavalcade is smaller (15 hands, 3 in., 1,000 lb.), eats more moderately (nine quarts of rolled oats or wet feed daily, with a mixture of timothy and clover for roughage; four quarts of sliced carrots...
...Bardamu became a determined malingerer, then a semi-mental case. After the War he drifted into a nightmare job in a remote trading post in French Colonial Africa, then to the U. S., where he cadged awhile in Manhattan, worked in the Ford factory in Detroit, lived in uneasy clover as a harlot's fancy man. Back in Paris, he finished medical school, practiced in a slum, got mixed up in an attempted murder, and ended as the unwilling locum tenens of a lunatic asylum. Daring Author Céline makes Bardamu tell his story himself, lets him show...
...have been here ever since. Back in the '90s, two cocktails cost a quarter and a quart of the best whiskey sold for .75. The present-day prices, although not as cheap as that, are still reasonable. The cocktails cost as follows: Martini .25, Manhattan .30, Bronx .25, Clover Club .35, Old Fashioned .35, Orange Blossom .30, Champagne .75; the prices of the punches and miscellaneous mixed drink.; Planters Punch .45, Claret Punch .35, Brandy Egg Nogg .50, Tom Collins .35, Gin Rickey .25, Ward "8" .45. The fizzes and sours range from .30 to .45, and the highballs from...
Died. B. Elaine Fox, 48. president of Clover Farm Stores Co. (4,000 stores), NRA retail and grocery code adviser; of exhaustion after four-and-a-half days of constant hiccoughing; in Charleroi...