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King George likes "God Save the King" so well that royal bands now linger over it at an officially slowed tempo, but Edward of Wales is always trying to hurry them through his hymn with its lugubrious refrain...
...College with a ticklish situation. If the Nazi official's desire is genuine, its refusal will seem a personal insult but acceptance under any circumstances will raise a storm of protest. Of course, it would seem that a real love for his alma mater would have caused him to refrain from raising this furore; certainly he should not have released the announcement to the newspapers before action had been taken. Nevertheless the question must be decided...
...Benjamin Franklin to stage-coach drivers and dispatch riders in 1776. . . . 'There is almost positive evidence.' Mr. Farley, said, 'that at a somewhat later date the Wells-Fargo Co. paid the Pony Express the sum of $7.38 in cash, and a keg of Jamaica rum, to refrain from bidding on the Government contract to carry mail from St. Louis to Fort Leavenworth.' " BUSINESS HAS MINUS TROUBLE Babson Sees Industry Going Forward- Declares It Is Merely Non-Plussed I. B. M. ADDS TO LINE "International Business Machine has announced the addition to its line of an automatic...
March, "There's Only One Vienna"Schrammel *"Die Fledermaus," Overture Strauss *"The Old Refrain" Kreisler *"Wine, Woman, and Song," Waltz Strauss "Spring Night in Vienna," Waltz Crist *Unfinished Symphony (First Movement) Schubert *"La Valse," Choreographic Poem Ravel *"By the Beautiful Blue Danube," Waltz Strauss *Rhapsody in Blue Gershwin Piano Soloist: Jesus Maria Sauroma *Strike Up The Band Gershwin Selections checked (*) are available on records at Briggs & Briggs Music Store, Harvard Square...
...column 2, of your last issue [TIME, April 16 ], I notice you carefully refrain from any condemnation of the act of the Junior Roosevelt. ... An assault by any other name is still an assault as anyone with a less prominent name would have found. Is the entire Roosevelt family sacrosanct...