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...never had the pleasure of meeting Mr. Allen until I reached Accra on the Gold Coast of Africa. . . . Mr. Allen, furthermore, did not ask me for permission to ride in the plane. He addressed himself to General E. E. Adler in charge of the U.S. Bomber Ferry Command Service. ... I did not have any jurisdiction whatsoever over this plane. I was merely a passenger...
...someone dragged a microphone. Entered a lean, intense, bug-eyed young man in white tie & tails. In his hand he bore a mouth organ. Impassively and impressively he proceeded to render a solo. The Blue Danube. Such was the operatic debut of the world's greatest harmonicist, Larry Adler...
...loud Philadelphian applause testified that it was all perfectly natural. The opera, old Vienna's "grand operetta" Die Fledermaus (The Bat) by Waltz King Johann Strauss, furnishes a place for interpolated entertainment. To hire Larry Adler for The Bat was just one more bright idea of the Philadelphia Opera Company, a young, English-singing troupe which has been tossing off bright operatic ideas for three seasons. Besides the solo Blue Danube, Larry Adler had two en cores up his sleeve-Liszt's Second Hungarian Rhapsody. Ravel...
...Christian Association and Virginia's faculty, who conceived the idea of pursuing theology "as an intellectual discipline," the lectures so stirred Virginia that similar courses were started at Yale, St. John's College, Drake University (Iowa). Virginia has had as lecturers Philosophers Jacques Maritain and Mortimer J. Adler; Dr. Henry St. George Tucker, Presiding Bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church; a cross section of Virginia's faculty, from philosophers to biologists...
...Virginia formal religion still appeals to only a sixth of the student body, undergraduates, like many graduates, have decided that theology is again intellectually respectable. At University of Chicago there has been an undergraduate swing to Catholicism during the last two years, credited to lectures by Professor Mortimer Adler and President Robert M. Hutchins on St. Thomas Aquinas. The university has a full-time Catholic chaplain, the first in its history...