Word: april
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...there were some 5,000 more delegates scheduled to perform before the Congress adjourns April 19. Hopeful of witnessing a perfect game, or at least seeing some fancy pin-toppling, 5,000 Chicagoans one night last week braved an April blizzard to watch the kegling of the local Birk Brothers (Superb Beer) quintet, which had won almost every tournament in the Midwest this year. Birk Brothers had won the A.B.C. title once-in 1917, with the same lead-off man, Policeman George Geiser, and the same anchor man, Lawyer Jules Lellinger, both of whom have been bowling for Superb Beer...
...Russian Composer Dmitri Shostakovich's Fifth Symphony. Composer of the famed opera Lady Macbeth of Mzensk and onetime white-haired boy of Soviet music, Shostakovich had lain for two years in official outer darkness, his opera banned and his Fourth Symphony confiscated because of "Leftist" modernistic tendencies (TIME, April 4). First of his works to be O. K.'d by Moscow critics since his downfall, the Fifth Symphony was supposed to indicate the new Soviet trend toward babbling-brook romanticism...
...drafted by the Holy See to do a diplomatic job of work on a colleague-Theodor Cardinal Innitzer, Archbishop of Vienna. Cardinal Innitzer and the Austrian bishops had admonished Austrian Catholics to vote Ja in the plebiscite, had subscribed that admonition with a fervent "Heil Hitler" (TIME, April 11). The Pope summoned Cardinal Innitzer to the Vatican for an explanation...
...Overland Express (Coronet-Columbia). One April day 78 years ago two crack horsemen set out lickety-split, one from Sacramento, Calif., the other from St. Joseph, Mo., to inaugurate the Pony Express and start a legend that is still galloping. Last week, while towns along the oldtime route were restoring some of the legendary landmarks, cinema's hardest-riding Western star, resolute, weather-beaten Buck Jones, was blazing the trail again for the younger generation. Pledged to abstain from profanity and hard liquor, Buck and his heck-for-leather pony riders yippee forth on their foam-flecked ponies, carry...
Storm in a Teacup (Sara Allgood, Vivien Leigh, Cecil Parker, Rex Harrison; TIME, April...