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Despite "candling" under X-ray equipment usually used to penetrate and reveal flaws in military armament, the world's oldest known vertebrate egg, discovered by a Harvard expedition, failed to reveal its origin yesterday at the Watertown arsenal...
...said, represents the most primitive type to be laid on dry land, as distinguished from those deposited only in water. Determination of its origin would throw new light on the evolution of vertebrates from a lower form of life...
...Quotas are figured by a complex formula entailing two assumptions: 1) that the U. S. wants only about 150,000 immigrants each year; 2) that the 1920 ratio of "persons of foreign origin" from each country to the total of U. S. residents should be kept about as is. Some countries (Canada, Mexico, Cuba, etc.) and classifications (students, tourists, businessmen, etc.) are exempt from quota classifications. Total of nonquota visitors last fiscal year...
...kind of blues piano playing in which the left hand drones a set bass phrase over & over, while the right hand goes to town with whatever variations the player can think up. Its form is identical with that of the classical passacaglia, a kind of dance music (of Spanish origin) that was old stuff to Bach's grandfather. Though boogie-woogie's mournful thump and clatter had long been heard in the humbler dives of New Orleans and Chicago, it was not taken up by the connoisseurs until 1938. In Manhattan the temple of boogie-woogie has been...
Most patriotic of early U. S. composers was an Englishman. In 1792 James Hewitt settled in Manhattan, where he conducted concerts for the peruked and crinolined promenaders at Delacroix's Vaux Hall Gardens. So fervent became Britisher Hewitt's Americanism that he deplored the British alehouse origin of The Star-Spangled Banner,* wrote himself a brand-new musical setting for Francis Scott Key's words...