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...idea," explained MacLeish, "that the radio way to do this thing was to let the four voices of the gospelers tell the story in their own words.* That way, by a frequent shift of voices, dramatic interest could be kept up, and the broadest sense of the witness could be conveyed." To connect, extend and impel the tragedy, he added the music of Johann Sebastian Bach...
...reached the entrance to a drift called Main West they knew what had happened. Somewhere, far down Main West's four-mile bore, gas or coal dust had exploded, like powder going off in a gun barrel. And almost all of the mine's 142-man day shift was inside. Retching and staggering, some of the explorers tried to get in. One of them dropped and died before they were forced back. Finally, hardly able to walk, they made it back to the elevator, rode up the shaft, emerged dazedly into the tipple...
...search ended after four days, three and a half miles in Main West. Fourteen men, the last of No. 5's day shift, lay face down on the tunnel floor.They had not been killed outright. But, being miners, they had known that help would never reach them in time and each had left a note...
Undergraduate golfers not on the Varsity squad will have to shift for themselves if they wish to find a place to play this spring, Carrol F. Getchell of the H.A.A. reported yesterday...
...wing of Montreal's league-leading Les Canadiens. He has made a runaway of this season's scoring race (with 36 goals, 22 assists), though for a while one rival club assigned two men to guard him - as frank a tribute as baseball's right-side shift against Batsman Ted Williams. They gave up that strategy when Rocket-Richard decoyed his defenders out of the play to give his mates a better shot at the cage...