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...After the first twenty strokes, the beat was lowered to a long powerful thirty-two, and the varsity pulled ahead of the others steadily. With magnificent poise and an easy swing to their oars, the varsity showed up beautifully even though the port list caused by the wind threw them off balance a little and made the port oars struggle a little at both ends of the stroke...
...with her. found her hands cold and clammy. They gave her wine, but she spilled it on her white frock. After the dance they started to drive her to an address she gave. At a cemetery she asked to be let out of the car. One of the boys threw his coat over her shoulders, followed her into the graveyard. She vanished, he fell dead. Panic-stricken, the other-boy drove to the address she had given, there learned that the girl had died several months before. On the dead girl's grave, they found the dead...
...Herald and with it the Paris edition. Hills asked Munsey to let him run the Paris Herald and got, with the job, Munsey's blunt opinion that "there is no need of a first-class newspaperman on the Herald." Laurence Hills, then 40, remade the paper nevertheless. He threw out the French departments, put in United Press service, used airplanes to get his paper to London and Amsterdam, upped daily stock quotations from five or six to 600. Hills wanted to make the Herald an international paper, and did, but at the same time it remained a small-town...
...year ago Alan Bush threw another musico-political bomb: a leftist piano concerto. The concerto started normally, but in the middle of its last movement the pianist stopped and a tenor voice swung out in a long, earnest recitative on the undignified position of artists in capitalist society...
...Critics threw their hats in the air, hailed Miss Porter as one of the most promising American writers when it first appeared in 1930. They tossed them again, finding her just as promising, when it was republished...