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...devout Negro William Grant Still, who inscribed his score: "Humble thanks to God, the source of inspiration." Composer Still's inspiration often ran to obvious, ear-catching effects, but it kept pace with Mrs. Biddle's ballad: an evocation of Negroes gathering in a pine clearing after the white folks have lynched their man and gone. A tall, handsome Negro, Louise Burge, let out a big, warm voice in the lament of the lynched man's mother...
...first royal refugees to the New World last week said good-by to their princesses at Halifax. Immediately, butter-cheeked Juliana, Crown Princess of The Netherlands, and her tiny children-Princess Beatrix, aged 2½, and Princess Irene, aged 9 months-were whisked off to a pine-shadowed log chateau in the Laurentians. Juliana was bitter. Said she: "Never speak to me of pity. Pity is for the weak, and our terrible fate has made us stronger than ever before...
From lands of palm and pine, from a people whose boast it had once been that the sun never set on it, rose a deeper prayer than Kipling's "Lord God of Hosts, be with us yet." The prayer of tight-lipped men & women throughout Britain's empire was to keep the sun from setting...
Where the Sabine River divides Louisiana from Texas, 68,000 Regulars of the U. S. Army maneuvered last week. Their war game, unrolled under a hot sun, on russet roads of sand and clay, in air sweet with the odor of pine trees, was the biggest the U. S. Army had ever...
...Army got a good look at Louisiana: moss, bats, and dark, stagnant pools in forests of oak and pine; Negroes, staring wall-eyed from weather-grey shacks; from shacks no better, poor whites whose grand pappies saw the Confederates run the Yanks off this same land; a new oil find, 30 miles south of prosperous Alexandria; cotton, corn, potatoes, rice where cane grew until Louisiana sugar prices went to pot. Yellow signs reading: TROOPS, KEEP OUT hung on fence posts and trees. These signs marked farms whose owners had refused the Army permission to cross their land. One officer, seeking...