Word: versions
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Patient, white-haired Cordell Hull is like a cook trying to watch too many pots. Last week, while he was anxiously brooding over his simmering reciprocal trade treaties, another pot boiled over and blew the lid off. From the Associated Press came a new version of the first seizure of U. S. mails on transatlantic Clippers landing at Bermuda. According to the story, when Captain Charles A. Lorber refused to let the British censor board his plane, the censor whistled up a boatload of marines armed with rifles with fixed bayonets. There are times for heroes, times for diplomats. Forty...
Hawkins' recording is much rougher than Miller's, doesn't have nearly the originality or ideas that the Miller version does, but is better than it for one reason: it has more life and push. It's the old story of a bad colored band usually being better than a good white one when it comes to playing that thing called swing. No matter how out of tune they may be, or how inferior their phrasing, the colored boys have an inate relaxation that while bands can rehearse for twenty years and never...
...Bacon wrote Shakespeare if you'll tell me who wrote Bacon." It is also said that one night he met two students, who were trying to sing "Frankie and Johnny." "You have it all wrong," he said. Then he stood on the sidewalk and personally gave them the correct version...
Next to Phi Beta Kappa, the Pore is Harvard's oldest club. Best-documented version of its founding: about 1790 a group of convivial undergraduates, who were wont to dine on roast pig at Abel Moore's tavern, formed the Pig Club, met weekly for "that kind of enjoyment to be derived from eating and drinking." Later the club lengthened its name, adopted a Latin motto - Dum vivimus vivamus ("While we live, let's enjoy it") - and merged with a rival crowd called The Knights of the Square Table...
Died. Colonel Rookes Evelyn Bell Crompton, 94, father of the British electrical industry, who installed electricity in Buckingham Palace and Windsor Castle, famed as "the man who was slapped by Queen Victoria"; in London. His version of the royal slap: "The Queen never slapped me at all. She only punched me on the shoulder to emphasize the fact that she disagreed with everything I was doing about the electric lighting at the time. But the very next day she agreed to everything. She was a wonderful woman...