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Wherever possible, city dwellers jogged off on weekends. On Annunciation Day 5,000 Swedes took excursion boats across the Sound to Copenhagen. British railways ran 1,500 extra trains for Easter holiday traffic-last year the only extra trains had been for late-shift workers. Londoners picnicked on Hampstead Heath; a short distance from town ten carnival shows were running at once, complete with carousels and gypsy sideshows. Frenchmen made for the country too. Pierre Chander, who works at the War Ministry, took his family to Fontainebleau. They visited the chateau and went for walks in the forest. Back...
...pointed out, was almost exactly what the late Lord Passfield (Sidney Webb) left in his will. There was a public outcry because the Quantock Hunt (staghounds) had been allowed petrol rations of 7½ gallons for each deer bagged. But British huntsmen were scheduling more than 100 chases between Easter and the end of April. In Bavaria, the horse-racing season opened; some 100,000 racegoers bet a total of 1½ million marks the first day. "Never before in the history of Bavarian racing," said a pleased German, "has so much money been spent...
...Calgary hosts promptly whisked her ten miles out to the Sarcee Indian reserve. There, during the Indians' annual Easter dance, Chief David Crowchild decreed that she should be known to all Sarcees as Sootz-ah-tsa (Shining Star). As Barbara Ann headed back to her Palliser Hotel suite, Calgary Albertan Reporter Art Evans took over for the final ecstatic burble: "Obviously tired but wearing the thrill of her Indian adoption like a happy mantle, Shining Star quietly slipped away to her tepee, there to dream of cool waters, soft winds, and the Great Manitou who guards the sleep...
...baton of the composer himself-Strauss, Mahler, Hindemith-and many more under guest experts like Pierre Monteux, Ernest Ansermet (TIME, Feb. 2), Bruno Walter. For 45 of its 60 years it felt the sure hand of the same good conductor, Willem Mengelberg. Among his innovations were the great annual Easter performances of Bach's St. Matthew Passion and foreign tours for which the Concertgebouw is famed...
Today's match will provide the season's first northern competition for the Crimson, which lost three straight is Dixie during the Easter vacation. It is B.C.'s opener...