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Conductor Hertz was ousted two years ago. Russian Issai Dobrowen and British Basil Cameron imported. But the orchestra has continued to drift nearer & nearer the rocks through lack of general support...
...nasty sea, blotted out the visibility. Snow so loaded the plane that the speed was cut to 60 m.p.h. Unable to climb above the storm, Pilot Hutchinson dropped to 50 ft. With windshields caked with snow, he dodged icebergs and cliffs until forced to make a practically blind landing. Drift ice punctured a pontoon. Radioman Gerald Altfilisch sent out SOS calls and their position, soon received a reply from Angmagsalik that the Scotch trawler Lord Talbot would rescue them within two hours. Breaking waves quickly put the set out of commission. Pilot Hutchinson taxied the crippled ship to shore where...
...Chicago-a fact he omits from his Congressional biography which emphasizes his "early life on farm" in western Kentucky. While the Panama Canal was being built he served three years (1910-13) as Civil Administrator of the Canal Zone. He wrote long homemade odes for every public occasion. Sample: Drift, clouds, drift, far o'er the Western sea; Rift, clouds, rift, in loveliness to me. Blow, winds, blow! Flow, tides, flow! Gild all with glory, Sun, we ask of thee! Canal workers submitted a protest to President Taft which read: "It isn't that we object to real...
...days later Musician Minevitch turned up at Bandol on the south coast of France with this story: As soon as they were out of sight of land his crew of four Corsicans, whom he had promised to pay $39 a day, lowered sail, made themselves comfortable, let the sloop drift. Even after running up a bill for four days' wages without getting anywhere, they refused to head for any port. Finally, in return for all of Minevitch's money, his snappy yachting clothes, and the sloop itself, they put him aboard a fishing boat which took him ashore...
Some magazine publishers nowadays behave like pamphleteers. They cup their ears to catch the drift of public conversation, whip together magazines on most-discussed topics?liquor, unemployment, crime, politics, sex?launch them as "one-shotters." If the first issue sells, subsequent issues are published; if it does not, the venture is dropped...