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Orpheus, son of Apollo, played his lyre so well that birds and beasts were stilled and oak trees moved from their places to listen. Even Cerberus, the three-headed guardian of Hades, was lulled to sleep when the musician tried to bring Eurydice back from the dead. Jealous Thracian maidens killed Orpheus who was buried in Libethra where the nightingales are supposed to sing more sweetly than in any other part of Greece. He is remembered as the God of Music...
William K. Wyant, Jr., Atlanta, Ga.; William T. Dean, Jr., Chicago, III; Charles F. Haas, Chicago, III.; Sol R. Srole, Chicago, III.; Howard F. Schomer, Oak Park, III.; John H. Sardeson, Oak Park, III.; Robert Kramer, Jr., Davenport, Ia.; Robert A. Stewart, Jr., Independence, Ia.; John R. Yungblut, Dayton, Ky.; Irving M. Pinansky, Portland, Me.; Thomas S. Risley, Waterville, Me.; Cesar L. Barber, Bethesda, Md.; Louis H. Conger, Jr., Muskegon, Mich.; Lazar M. Paves, Detroit, Mich.; Joseph H. Phillips, Dearborn, Mich...
...Prince Paul, Jugoslavia's pallid, scholarly Chief Regent, barely controlled his grief. On a high platform upon a great throne chair sat 11 year-old King Peter II, big-eyed, erect and at times somewhat puzzled. Below him lay his murdered father King Alexander I in a simple oak coffin...
England's prolific Poet Laureate writes a rousing tale of a Latin American revolution, in which all the best parts are filled by Anglo-Saxon hearts of oak...
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