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...much rather play before a crowd of kids from sixteen to twenty than I would before a crowd of middle aged folks. That's the truth. The younger generation are saying alas and alack with Mozart and the rest. They want something lively, and sentimental. Some time ago I toured the South with Cab Calloway--we played before crowds of these southern debutantes. They almost wont crazy over the hot stuff. Why, after the dances they used to crowd around us to get our autographs, and honestly, there was always more of a group around Cab, even in the South...
...director and censor, was well known as organizer of President Machado's ruffianly strong-arm squad, the "Partida de la Porra" (Party of the Bludgeon). What he got was no taxi. A green automobile swung in to the curb. Somebody fired both barrels of a sawed-off shotgun. Sixteen slugs plowed through his chest, killed him instantly. One of the first at the scene of the assassination was Brigadier Antonio Ainciart, head of the national police, who put in a busy morning chasing reporters and smashing cameras. In the suburbs police stopped a green automobile containing three passengers...
...December 15 recommending to the Governing Boards that, beginning with the year 1932-33, the number of courses required for the degree of A.B. or S. B. for students concentrating in fields having General Final Examinations be fifteen in addition to prescribed English. Previously the requirement had been sixteen courses in addition to prescribed English. At the same time the Faculty recommended other changes in the rules to keep the number of satisfactory grades demanded of candidates for the degree as high in relation to the total number of courses as under the previous system. These recommendations were subsequently voted...
Phantom, President Lowell's cocker spaniel, is dead. This familiar companion of President Lowell on his walks around Cambridge died at the age of sixteen. His passing was described last night...
...second group of sixteen men follows: R. P. Curtis, Jr., E. W. Dalton, F. E. Denny, O. H. Emmons, P. E. Fox, F. M. Foley, F. G. Jewett, Jr., R. D. Kernan, A. B. McFadden, John Page, Lewis Perry, Jr., Edward Rawson, G. F. Robertson, P. C. Staples, Jr., A. K. Ware, P. L. Wilson...