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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Lorand orchestramen know what it is to rehearse twelve hours a day, seven days a week. They are not allowed to answer back, not allowed to overeat, discouraged from marrying. But in spite of their rigorous discipline, their playing has the lush abandon which distinguishes almost all Hungarian orchestras, takes on particular magic late at night when good wine keeps them company. The Lorand orchestra would be a smash-hit in a night club but night clubs are forbidden. Ambitious Edith Lorand refuses to be a mere entertainer, although serious critics may rate her as such. Hers is a concert...
Unenviable is the legal lot of a coroner or medical examiner. Unlike a private physician, who can abandon plans for an autopsy if relatives of the deceased refuse permission, he is ordinarily required by law to make such examination whenever violence is suspected or cause of death cannot otherwise be determined. But he may thereupon, like any private investigator, be sued by disgruntled relatives of the deceased. Last week medical examiners flocked to New City's court, hoping to see a precedent set against suits over the condition of a body after an official autopsy...
...Fine Arts till Christmas, is full enough of barbed satire, but instead of one great big thorn there are lots of little prickles. The trouble seems to be that a Frenchman has no where to aim his darts, and so he scaters them with carefree abandon...
...light case after case of men who are in distress. Some are too burdened with outside work to fulfill the high promise of their earlier years. Some, failing to keep their scholastic average up to the minimum level required of scholarships, are deprived of this assistance and forced to abandon, for a time at least, their scholarly careers. Some keep their studies above the minimum level only at a strain that overtaxes their strength and leads to a breakdown. Whatever advantages this stern regime may have for some young men of exceptional endurance, it involves in many other cases much...
...against a Yale team which has a total of 127 points amassed to 13 for their opponents, Crimson adherents point to a victory over Exeter, the only team to smirch the Eli scutcheon. And today Stahley will abandon his system of playing his men as units of eleven men, and will keep his eleven best on the field at all times in an attempt to bring the decision into the Harvard camp...