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Lamed in his right shoulder by a motor smash, an attack of neuritis and overmuch work, Conductor Leopold Stokowski of the Philadelphia Orchestra departed his audience last week for an 18-month vacation. It was the end of his 15th season in the city of old families and new gossip. The auditorium crashed with more than perfunctory hand-clapping...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Adieu | 5/9/1927 | See Source »

...groups of pickets. Meanwhile, in Ohio the Powhatan Mining Co. informed strikers that they must either pay rent or get out of the company's houses. The Union, disheartened, settled down to a long, long wait. The operators, sat back, hoping, if not expecting that the Union would smash itself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COAL: No Alarm | 4/11/1927 | See Source »

...opportune moments, the Papacy can and does strike swift and sharp. Last week, in Poland, where 95% of all Y. M. C. A. members are Roman Catholics, the Archbishop of Warsaw, Alexander Cardinal Kakowski, decided to smash the "Y" at one blow. This he prepared to do by issuing a formal message to all Polish Christians...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Protestant Heresy | 4/11/1927 | See Source »

...Arbor, Mich., on Jan. 27, Henry R. Kasson, 22, junior in the University of Michigan, who had lately suffered concussion of the brain in a motor smash, wrote out a check and a letter (explaining nothing) for his roommate, opened his copy of Dante's Inferno, drank acid and died...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: National Universities | 2/7/1927 | See Source »

...flesh gouged from his body. They laughed, and said: "Now that you are on the inside, we can tell you all about that. The night before the game, we, the football squad of Princeton, were shown a picture of your brother's nose, and we were instructed to smash that nose every time we got near it." "But there were bits of flesh torn from the other parts of his body," I said. "That was--(naming the Princeton player) he always bites under the pile." My brother had to have a part of a rib transplanted before he was able...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BRADEN ADDS FUEL TO TIGER SCANDAL | 1/28/1927 | See Source »

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