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...President of the U. S., grandson of Grant's Secretary of War and Attorney General. Lawyer Taft's chief qualifications were: 1) his name; 2) his "gold-clause" suit for $1.07 against the U. S. Government, a suit against which the New Deal's best legal talent last week filed a brief in the Court of Claims...
...best possible answer to the fatuity of the Teachers' Oath Bill was yesterday's all-star array of talent at the legislative hearing. Harvard should be proud of the logical and sincere defense of academic freedom made by President Conant, who exchanged thrusts with the embattled farmers of Beacon Hill with enough force and conviction to allay any fears that the heads of the American universities might he shirking their proper intellectual leadership in the community...
...suggestion of the Crimson concerning the development of individual talent requires no reorganization of the course. Under the present system, any student who displays talent and expresses an interest in writing is given free scope to enlarge whatever literary inclinations he may possess. In any case, judgement as to the student's ability must lie at the discretion of the instructor. Any suggestions which place arbitrary restrictions upon this discretion are superfluous...
Zimmerman, whose experience in coaching has combined such extremes as amateur productions for the Salvation Army and coaching for a major film company in Hollywood, has an unusual array of talent and is finding his chief problem to be more in sorting out the best material than in hunting for singing ability. His job is considerably lightened by the excellent music which composers Rotan Sargent, Cammann Newberry and Harold Parsons have contributed to this year's production, notably such tunes as "This is The Night", "Look Your Heart", and "This Is So Sudden", bandleader, announced he would feature several...
...Menuhin. Her father is an automobile salesman in San Jose, her mother a piano teacher who has given lessons to the grocer's child and taken food for pay. Young Marjorie drummed out piano scales long before she was given her first violin. But the fiddle revealed her talent. At 9 she had progressed so far that she was taken the 60 miles to San Francisco several times a week to study with Kathleen Parlow, who suggested the first trip East. Indomitable Mrs. Edwards was easy to convince. Money was scarce but there was the 10-year-old, seven...