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Emergency meetings of the Red Cross were held in Washington. Ernest J. Swift, who had charge of Red Cross relief work in the Santo Domingo hurricane last fall (TIME, Sept. 15, 22), took the first train to Miami, flew in a Pan American plane to Managua, took charge of all emergency feeding stations...
...stood for a few seconds jostling at the line, then broke in the confusion of a false start. A moment later the field broke again, this time gathering speed and narrowing together as they went past Sefton Yard. Every horse went over the first fence. At Becher's Brook, Swift Roland fell and was killed when the horse behind him landed on his head. The first time past the stands, Easter Hero was ahead, with Gregalach second and Grakle, Shaun Goilin (last year's winner), Solanum, and a half-dozen others bunched close behind...
...play relates the story of a young Englishman who strangles his faithless mistress, confesses his crime to his father (Lionel Atwill). A swift chain of circumstance compels Mr. Atwill to assume the role of defendant. During his trial, which is accompanied by some adroit British sarcasm from the bench, he begins to crack. Harried by the King's Counsel, who patiently sets his trap and then springs it with heroic crescendo, Actor Atwill breaks down, screams: "I did it! I did it! I did it!" This part of the play is done so well that spectators almost forget that...
...seventeenth century have been bought to help round out the White collection. Various single and rare volumes, picked up from time to time, render more complete the collections of certain authors that are already exceptionally well represented in the Library,--for example,--Donne (including a valuable manuscript), Dryden, Swift, Pope, Gay, and Gray. Another subject that these gifts have helped us to build up is French literature, especially poetry and drama, of the late sixteenth and seventeenth centuries,--a class in which the Library is still lamentably weak. In an entirely different field, there was bought a collection of nearly...
Tosca by Italian artists, the chorus of La Scala and the Milan Symphony, under Lorenzo Molajoli (Columbia, $21)-In-terruptions by an excited Italian claque are the only additions needed to make this Tosca sound completely realistic. All Conductor Molajoli's performances move at a swift, theatric pace...