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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last year, on the advice of Carleton Sprague Smith, affable Manhattan librarian and expert on early U. S. music, a harpsichord was obtained for the governor's palace, and U. S. Harpsichordist Ralph Kirkpatrick was hired to put on a festival of 18th-Century music. So successful was Williamsburg's first music festival that in the autumn another was given...
...McPherran had erred in speaking but Mr. Barnes had no business believing him, the committee voted three-to-two in Mr. McPherran's favor. Exhausted by its emotional ordeal, Mr. McPherran's team was defeated in the final round by a team captained by fat, easygoing, oldtime Expert Harry B. Raffel...
...strides in the past, more frequent medical care in virtually every part of the country is a sine qua non for a rise in the standards of national health. Only through well-equipped clinics, which in many cases will have to receive state subsidies, can our humbler citizens afford expert, specialized consultation. Those who furiously denounce all group practice as "undemocratic" and "socialistic" are still living in the Horse and Buggy Days. Only by efficient, economical use of the new weapons at its disposal can the medical profession march on to new triumphs in its ceaseless struggle against disease...
England. Twenty years ago a genial Englishman named John Collings Squire, parodist, poet and expert cricketer, launched The London Mercury. Its main aim was to publish poetry, especially the work of his friends, Robert Bridges, Robert Graves, Siegfried Sassoon. Well-printed, heavy, smooth, The Mercury was appreciated by poets because Editor Squire, if badgered awhile, paid real money for poems. The Mercury's eminence grew with well-phrased reviews, contributions by Hardy, Conrad, Shaw, Chesterton, essays on town planning, transport, education. But its circulation stayed around 4,000, disappointing Editor Squire, who once gave his credo...
...policy of the coaches has been to spread the coaching as thin as effectiveness will permit. A change in the system would not increase our effectiveness. The report states "Players who never had . . . any instruction will, with one or two afternoons in these expert hands, learn more than they ever believed to exist in these sports...