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...number of idle among the 400,000 mincrs who ended their 17-day walkout last Saturday was not many more than 10,000 with the largest number reported in the southern Appalachian and Hlinois districts. Some of the mines were still shut down because the miners had not received official return-to-work word from their union chieftain, John L. Lowis, while coal disputes and repairs kept others idle...
...League--the football equivalent of the Appalachian League. . . . Yale soon will join Penn in out-classing the holy Harvards, the devont Dartmouths, and the better-than-thou Browns." November...
...composer, the small stature of his colleagues had something to do with it. His technical competence far outshone his inventiveness. His first popular success, El Salon Mexico (1936), was full of Mexican folk tunes. He borrowed folk and hymn themes for his ballet scores (Billy the Kid, Appalachian Spring) and his movie music (Our Town). The Third Symphony, which Boston heard last week, varied from tenderness to brassy choirs which led a Boston Post critic to call it "Shostakovich in the Appalachians...
More often than he borrowed from others, Aaron Copland has borrowed from himself. The Third's opening movement uses a tonal device from Appalachian Spring (1944); the fourth movement intricately develops the theme of Fanfare for the Common Man (1942). Yet there was enough original music in the Third's 40 minutes, and so skilled a reworking of the old, that it would undoubtedly add to Aaron Copland's popularity-a kind of popularity that seemed to keep him too busy to be a great composer...
Within a minute, the air shock wave hit the Appalachian with the concussion of a 16-in. gun fired close at hand. The ship had already felt the underwater blast, like the push of a nearby depth charge...