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Roman music lovers saw in a sudden rapid shifting of Italian orchestra directors the coordinating influence of Mussolini from whose dictation not even Italian artists are exempt. Arturo Toscanini, for years illustriously inseparable from La Scala in Milan, will reputedly conduct this winter at Costanza Opera in Rome. At La Scala it is whispered that the baton of Bernardino Molinari will flicker. Neapolitans, devotees of the famed San Carlos Opera will hail as their chief conductor, this winter, Tullio Serafin, long a brilliant conductor for the Metropolitan Opera of Manhattan. Pietro Mascagni will go to the Augustep, chief concert hall...
...remember that he ought to report his interview with Mr. Cochran to his city editor. He telephoned the story. At 11:55 a. m. innocent looking financial news tickers emitted the words of Thomas Cochran. Post No. 5 on the floor of the Stock Exchange became a sudden, riotous rendezvous of yelling, seething, sweating, frenzied brokers. Friends of Mr. Cochran were skeptical about the truth of the interview, but nothing could stop General Motors stock from leaping upward, twelve points the first day, twelve more the second, finally reaching a record high of $213.75. Reporter Nicholl's pocket memo...
...Major" Arthur Brooks, Negro valet, who has advised every President since William Howard Taft on the purchase and wearing of clothes, suffered a sudden heart attack. President Coolidge's personal physician, Major J. F. Coupal, was summoned from Paul Smith's Hotel to White Pine Camp at 3 a.m. and reported the spell not serious. Mr. Brooks has been ill for many months. John Mays, Negro, has been substituting for Mr. Brooks...
...bands directly with wet earth would have frustrated even this "act of God?" The system of lightning rod protectors at Lake Denmark is obviously inefficient. The Government controls immense voltages of electricity at Niagara Falls; why have not engineers sought a method to control electrical attacks on the concentrated sudden death at Dover? Were the officials negligent in permitting habitation near the arsenal? Will new storage plants be situated at Dover? Will serious attempt be made to safeguard them against lightning? Will the 21 other arsenals along the U. S. seacoasts and borders be modernized...
After the first set Mrs. Mallory could still produce the flash of her square, sudden smile; after the second set she looked suddenly darker; she played the third set with dogged courage, the perspiration running down into her eyes. Helen Wills was as pale at the end of the match as she had been at the beginning. Let the people in the stands behave like maniacs. What did she care? At 17, very quietly, she had won the woman's championship of the U. S. She had now reached full growth - 142 pounds, 5 ft. 7. It was time...