Word: aarons
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Making of a Man. Arthur Vandenberg was born in 1884 in Grand Rapids, a town famed for its furniture and its Dutch-descended population. His grandfather helped nominate Lincoln in 1860. His father, Aaron Vandenberg, was a harness-maker who was cleaned out in the Cleveland panic of 1893. After that, Father Vandenberg gave his son the stern ad monition: "Always be a Republican." In the government club at Grand Rapids' Central High School, young "Van," who had a flair for oratory, was the "Senator from Michigan." Few doubted even then that he would like to have the title...
...Dirt. In The Bronx, Aaron Hulah, 65. sued his landlord for $35 damages, testified that he had been barred from taking a weekly bath in the house tub, was thus forced to take 52 round-trip subway rides (a total distance of 1,500 miles) to public baths on the lower East Side for a total expense of 70? a week.Ruled Judge Michael Delagi: "Hulah gets the moolah...
...payoff on this unexciting Hambletonian was that one day later, Darnley, a four-year-old owned by Aaron Williams of Corning, N.Y., trotted the distance in 1:59¾ for the fastest competitive mile ever recorded on the Goshen track...
This isn't news, but there are several things that should be said about Aaron Copland's lecture, "Jazz and Folk-Song Influences" on modern American music which he gave several weeks ago. In dealing with the development of jazz, Mr. Copland made one assertion which rubbed our fur the wrong way--a statement which seems so basic and misleading as to call for a rebuttal...
Speaking on "Jazz and Folk Song Influnences," Aaron Copland, visiting lecturer of Music, will give the fourth in a series of lectures tomorrow night at 8 o'clock in Paine Hall...