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...past eight years at Manhattan's Metropolitan, pert French soprano Lily Pons has practically had a monopoly on old-fashioned Latin coloratura warbling. Last week, when Coloratura Pons hurried off to Palm Beach, Fla. to nurse a sudden cold, General Manager Edward Johnson shoved a brand-new Italian soprano, Lina Aimaro, into her part in Lucia di Lammermoor. A packjammed audience went to hear her, found Soprano Aimaro an earnest young Model T coloratura, with good top notes and a tendency to stall...
Frankie had gone out off the Florida Keys in a rowboat by moonlight, fishing for ladyfish. She had caught a few when a sudden lunge at her line warned her that she had hooked no ladyfish. In a split second a huge tarpon vaulted out of the inky sea, "his eyes glaring like the headlights of an automobile and his body shining like an electric sign." For 55 minutes they struggled-the big "silver king" making 27 frenzied leaps before he was finally brought to gaff...
...Thunder is the result of a pressure wave caused by the sudden expansion of air created by a quick lightning discharge. All flashes do not release energy with the same speed. ... In some cases the electrical current is built up and released slowly; that is, in one or two tenths of a second as compared to millionths of a second in other discharges. This so-called slow lightning produces no thunder...
...addition to those changes, one other substitution was occasioned by the sudden illness of Professor Edward H. Warren. His place in his two first year Property courses is being filled by Andrew Casner, a visiting lecturer at the Law School this year...
...Varsity malletmen went down to defeat 13 to 12 in a "sudden-death" overtime before the Ramblers in a feature indoor match Saturday night, and the Yardlings nosed out the Coassaks in a Class C contest...