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...Seattle Symphony and the audience were much impressed. They were also impressed by the fact that the rich, gouty, opinionated, convivial conductor is one of the world's half-dozen best, and by his uninhibited performance: his hisses and shouted "Hos" (for loud passages), his spectacular wind-ups, his devotion to the reeling & writhing & fainting-in-coils method of conducting...
Nobody could deny that the Little Flower was one of the world's half-dozen busiest men, and far & away the world's busiest busybody. Managing the earth's most citified city would be a full-time job for Superman. LaGuardia tosses it off in a bare twelve hours a day. In his ample spare time he runs (without salary) the Office of Civilian Defense in Washington, participates in the Canadian-American Joint Defense Board, makes an average of 700 speeches a year, conducts an occasional orchestra, sits in on occasional Cabinet meetings, dashes...
Weekends at Harvard are usually considered sacred to football games and cocktail parties, but the half-dozen Harvard men who trouped down to Cambridge Community Center last Saturday, where they were joined by students from Radcliffe, B. U., Wheaton, and Wellesley, broke firmly with the tradition of decorative idleness. They occupied themselves during a seven-hour day with c carpentering, painting, and doing odd jobs in the rambling, converted school building which houses Cambridge's only colored settlement, and they spent the evening discussing and planning future "Weekend Work Camps," urban and rural, for which they expected to recruit several...
...spite of this, the A.F.C. has hung up a proud record of deliveries. It has delivered many hundreds of bombers (the exact number is a tightly held secret) to Britain, has lost about a half-dozen ships on ocean flights. Of these only three were bombers in delivery. The others were shuttle planes, used to carry pilots and crews back to Newfoundland...
...theme of gay, romantic love bursting Victorian bonds. But despite all of this and much more which could be added from the pens of countless critics who have assigned the cliches of sentimental romanticism to deadest limbo, not a year of the new age passes without a half-dozen revivals of the old. And if Sigmund Romberg's "The Student Prince" provides any indication, it is that the modernistic revolt has left a lot of theatre-going Bourbons around...