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...whipping, she never cried. She just stood there and took it." At P.S. 136, Althea was a chronic truant; she played hooky and played Softball with the boys in Central Park. She also played forward on a basketball team called "The Mysterious Five," which practiced at the 134th Street Boys Club and scheduled as many as four games a week with local industrial clubs. "I just wanted to play, play, play," says Althea. "My mother would send me out with money for bread, and I'd be out from morning to dark-and not bring home the bread...
Finals in the 134th annual contest for the Boylston Speaking prizes will take place at 8 p.m. tonight in Paine Hall...
Fats was playing a harmonium at the age of five. Born on Manhattan's West 134th Street, he grew up next door to P.S. 89. This made it easy for his mother, who had eleven other children, to lean out of the window and call, "How's Tom doin'?" His father was pastor of the Abyssinian Baptist Church, now the largest Baptist congregation in the world, where Tom took up the organ...
...that "Nymphe and Shepherds" of Purcell was written for a play called the "Libertine," a fact not mentioned on the program but given here for what it is worth. Following are two religious pieces of the 17th century, "Confitemini Domino" by Constantini and a setting for chorus of the 134th psalm by Bach's contemporary, Sweelink. The 18th century is represented by a beautiful chorus from Gluck's "Orpheus." The two modern choral works to be sung are unusual arrangements. "Mal" Holmes has turned the organ accompaniment of Mendelssohn's motet "Laudati Pueri" into a rich orchestral background, while...
Trafalgar Day (Oct. 21), 134th anniversary of Lord Nelson's smashing of Napoleon's Navy, brought out 215,231 boys between 20 and 22 to register for military service in England, Scotland and Wales.* Only 4,556 declared themselves "conchies" (conscientious objectors). War Secretary Leslie Hore-Belisha radiorated: "This is not a war about a map. It is a fight to reestablish the conditions under which nations and individuals including, may I say, the German nation and individuals-can live and live again...