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...white folk penetrate 200 miles into French Equatorial Africa to the settlement of Lambarene on the sluggish River Ogowe. Such strangers as do turn up there are mightily surprised to hear, among the night sounds of the jungle, an organ crashing out one of Johann Sebastian Bach's Toccatas and Fugues. Albert Schweitzer is no more famed as a man of God than he is as a man of music. Author of a two-volume biography of Bach, he is the world's No. 1 interpreter of the great German's organ music, which he has edited in five volumes...
...engagements of that most excellent film "All Quiet on the Western Front" will be apropos and decidedly timely. Without overstating the power of the screen it is safe to say that a viewing of this picture cannot fail to inspire a decided conviction that no matter what the issue, settlement by war is not worth the price. "All Quiet on the Western Front", is more than good peace propaganda, it is very good screen drama. It is stronger and more effective than recent anti-war-films because it is not merely a collection of stark scenes of murder and brutality...
...dollars from Chief La Fontaine several hundred swampy acres in the Miami Indian reservation. Two years later Trader Foster donated 40 acres and built a log courthouse for a townsite on Wildcat Creek. The village took the name of Kokomo from an Indian who frequented the settlement. History sometimes describes Indian Kokomo as an honorable and courageous chief, sometimes as a common coon-hunting, root-digging, rum-loving, shiftless, abusive no-account...
...First use of his pet name for her in public. *Though no longer Queen she retains by a legal settlement the title of Her Majesty...
...been uniform at least. In the Harvard Engineering School laboratory of soil mechanics, Arthur Casagrande, assistant professor of Civil Engineering, a former member of the United States Bureau of Public Roads, has carried out experiments with the most modern equipment that go far towards explaining the reasons for the settlement...