Word: tors
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...bands in the U. S., the Navy and the Marine, were out & about the country on their annual concert tours. Their programs made good listening for patriots. The Marine Band's Captain William F. Santelmann played nothing but U. S. music. His three programs contained Stephen Foster, Vic tor Herbert. Gershwin, Ferde Grofé, and some surprising items: band arrangements of a movement from Howard Hanson's Nordic Symphony, Jabberwocky from Deems Taylor's Through the Looking Glass suite, a rumba from Harl McDonald's Second Symphony...
First the horse took the lead, then the doctor. Approaching Charleston, the doc tor was three miles behind the horse...
Publisher Kirchwey was a young woman three years out of Barnard College when she joined The Nation in 1918. In 1922 she became managing editor, in 1932 edi tor. At 43 she is gracious, handsome, sincerely Leftist in sympathy. With a circulation around 40,000, Freda Kirchwey manages to make The Nation pay its own way on a Spartan budget. Approximately a fourth of its revenue comes from advertising. Editor Kirchwey believes that with 15,000 more subscribers, The Nation could get along without any advertisers...