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Composer Carpenter's new symphony was smooth and well-dressed as Composer Carpenter himself. Orchestra Hall rang with polite applause; politely Composer Carpenter took three curtain calls. Critics, praising its tuneful themes, its crystal-clear orchestration, were polite too, found it one of the most gentlemanly of symphonies...
...eight (8)acts of vaudeville were accompanied by the gentle crackle and splash of bursting eggs. When the final curtain rang down, the horde, fifteen hundred strong emerged onto the the street. Cambridge citizens for miles around promptly turned in a riot alarm, bolted their doors and hid under their beds...
...phone rang, and after a few words on the wire, Mr. Russell went downstairs. Mrs. Russell was waiting to go apartment-hunting
Precisely at this moment the unexploded Nazi bomb exploded and a shower of rubble dinned like hail on the roof of the Duke's car. When His Royal Highness jumped out, grinning and ruefully rubbing his ears, which still rang with the concussion, women gathered round the Duke. A frightened little girl came up and put her hand in his. He held it while he chatted with the people. "It's grand to see you here," said they. "How's your wife and youngsters?" "Fine, thanks!" said the Duke...
...Quadrangle of the University of Pennsylvania one morning last week rang the cheerful clatter of an ancient hand bell that once summoned scholars to class. That homely sound opened the celebration of the 200th birthday of a homely old university. To the shirt-sleeved sons of Penn seated in camp-meeting chairs on the Quadrangle grass, it spoke of Founder Ben Franklin, of Philadelphia, cradle of U. S. freedom, of old-fashioned sanity. But the ancient bell merely interrupted, did not dispel the hush of uncertainty and gloom that hung over Penn's Bicentennial...