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...Chapel, to the dismay of diehards, Negroes stomped, slapped their thighs, plunk-a-plunked banjos and guitars, sang blues and "sinful songs." Fisk's music director, white, German-descended, Harvard-trained Harold Schmidt, 31, had resolved that "Fisk's celebration should sound of whatever is Negro. The five-day program included such commercially successful performers as guitar-playing Joshua White, work-song singer, and the gospel-swinging Golden Gate Quartet. To show what his university choir could do with serious, non-Negro music, Harold Schmidt put on Swiss Arthur Honegger's choral work, King David. Fisk jubileers...
There may be a shortage of aluminum for shoes, but horse racing should boom this summer. Thoroughbreds are not likely to be drafted. Most trainers are too old and jockeys too small to serve in the Army. The five-day week will encourage workers with bulging pay envelopes to get acquainted with the "sport of kings." Last week at New York's Jamaica race track, in suburban Long Island, fans set a world's record for pari-mutuel bets. In the first seven days of its spring meeting, $5,786,152 was wagered-an average...
Charley Turquoise and the Short Man's Grandson were making the ritualistic sand painting that forms the climax of the five-day Navajo Thunder Chant. The painting should have been made in a hogan, or House of Song, built of cedar logs and mud, with its entrance facing east. The Museum of Modern Art couldn't supply a hogan, but Charley and the Short Man's Grandson were always careful to enter their sand painting from the east. Because the Thunder Chant's sand-painting medicine was strong medicine, and any pictures of it might make...
...Last year the Department sponsored the spectacular five-day intravenous drip treatment for syphilis (TIME, April 22). It is now analyzing 25,000 records of heart-disease cases, keeping close tabs on youngsters with rheumatic heart disease, No. 1 killer of school children. Next big problem, says Dr. Charles Frederick Bolduan, Di rector of Health Education, is control of diabetes. Over 75,000 New Yorkers are diabetics...
...expert archers who gathered for the five-day hunt through Chattahoochee's forests and tangled rhododendron "hells" got lots of sage advice from Ranger Woody: >-"The way to get a deer is to find a gap and then sit down and wait. A gap is a low place between mountain peaks. It is a place both deer and humans seek to cross mountains. Deer are just as lazy as humans. > "If you fire your arrow at a deer and think you've hit him, sit down, fill your pipe. Smoke it all the way through. Then...