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...they would believe that she had half the talent of her idolized brother. The youthful pair chose a program which would have taxed most grown-up musicians. They played Mozart's A Major Sonata (No. 42), Schumann's D Minor, Beethoven's Kreutzer. Hephzibah, a husky tow-head like Yehudi, wore a long peach-colored dress that did not advertise her youth. She walked straight to the piano, bent over the keyboard, never raised her eyes to the audience...
...Morro Castle's wake. In Shrewsbury, Mass. last week died Ethel I. Knight Celatka, 21, of a weakened heart supposedly caused by 14 hours' exposure in the water after she and her sister jumped from the burning Ward liner last September and swam ashore each with a child in tow. (Total deaths: 128.) Off Asbury Park last week, wreckers salvaging the vessel reported that the charred hulk was "wrinkling," the whole ship was cracking...
...avail, however, for on Saturday night a large limousine came sailing down Dunster Street, at a high rate of speed, failed to stop before the gate, and carried away two of the posts in making its triumphal entry. A tow car had to be called to take away the wreck...
...stepfather-in-law's newspapers (New York Evening Post), tried to trim his load further by merging the Inquirer and Public Ledger (TIME, April 16). Last week he abandoned ship. The Inquirer, combined with what is left of the Public Ledger, will be taken in tow again by the Elversons as salvage for the notes which profits evidently did not pay off. On his way from France was Raymond Patenôtre, to take possession on behalf of his mother...
...Williams students chartered a 40-ft. yawl, Cumberbunce II. The night after the race they found Cumberbunce II stranded 500 ft. from her moorings. When one of them hired a water taxi and tried to get aboard, a man with a revolver ordered him off, ordered the taxi to tow him out of the harbor, and then put off into Long Island Sound on Cumberbunce II. Authorities started a search for the first pirate on the Atlantic Coast since 1819, when five were hanged in Boston...