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...Roland Riemer, members of Boy Scout Troop 193. Three pals left behind were a little dubious about the plan and warned the four not to try it. But Dickie and his crew, in cowboy jeans and cowboy shirts, paddled off, leaving their pals to watch the shoes, socks and fur-lined jackets which they had left on shore. They had one good oar, a broken oar and a piece of a board. In almost no time at all, carried by the brisk wind, they were out of shouting distance of the beach...
Works to be performed include Paul Hindemith's Abendkonzert: Trio fur Blockfloten, Frederic Chopin's Nocturne in G Minor, George Philip Telemann's Four Songs from Ausewahite Lieder, Alessandre Scarlatti's Sonata a Guettro, and the Trio Sonata in D by Johann Joachim Guautz. Twelve 'Cliffe students will participate in the program...
...this year enrollments total 16,000 full-time students. But the 16,000 are only a small fraction of those who study at M.S.C. Each year, some 100,000 people come from all over the state to take special short-term courses. They include insurance salesmen and pickle packers, fur breeders and cattlemen, farmers who come 40,000 strong for the annual Farmers' Week. For those who cannot make the trip, M.S.C. has other means of extending "service": lecturers, farm and home demonstrators, and assorted publications running to a million circulation a year...
...push of a button. With all this modern electric equipment around them, however, observers still freeze throughout the winter. Since the sensitive lenses cannot take quick temperature changes, and have to stay in the open all night for use, the buildings are never heated; students must supply themselves with fur-lined gloves and woolen caps on cold winter nights...
Once again Vera Walush was hauled out and put on the stand, a bizarre figure in a fur coat, blue dress with sequins, platform shoes. Her neighbor, Bessie Baron, who used to supply her with bootleg alcohol, testified Vera had told her that she had had to put the finger on Joe and Teddy or the cops would have "run me out of business." Blowzy Vera squirmed and twisted through her story, insisted sullenly: "I know dey was da killers...