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Lyons will join Dean Bender and Crane Brinton, McLean Professor of Ancient and Modern History, in issuing another reply to the Tribune's first series over WHRV from 9 to 10 p.m. tonight...
...sturdy barns of Iowa's rich farms, on up into Minnesota, out over the Great Lakes. It drove boats and ships aground. Unburdened of snow, the winds whipped along the border country and on east to the sea. In Buffalo, the gale tumbled a 75-ton coal crane from its tracks, sent it plunging 60 feet through a transformer building. At Painted Post, N.Y., in a final slap, the wind knocked over an iron statue of an Indian which had stood since...
...narrowly escaped death. The rebel sergeant assigned to kill them was an old friend, who had drunk beer with them in their billet many times. He took the two officers into a field, fired into the ground and then led them to the Presbyterian Mission of Dr. John Curtis Crane, who was barricaded in with his wife and four other missionaries...
...most famous bells in the college are rarely heard these days. The seventeen-bell Russian carillon, or zvon, which hangs in the tower of Lowell House was the gift of Charles R. Crane. It was brought from the USSR in 1931, accompanied by a carillon expert who started to perform immediately. Since the architects who designed Lowell House had not counted on a zvon, the seventeen iron lungs shook and reverberated through the new structure so much that the residents, now known as Bellboys, erupted into the courtyard, banging pots and pans every time the expert let go. The musician...
Writer-Director Crane Wilbur has concentrated on incidents in which the fugitives collide with the ordinary people who make up a community, and in which both show what they are made of. When the picture was shown to inmates of the Canon City prison recently, some of the recaptured convicts diffidently admitted that it didn't seem entirely true to life, but it is an abler and more honest try in that direction than most movies. There is impressively little hamming-up of story, and the characterizations and the danger and the suspense are unusually real and valid...