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When Charles Augustus Lindbergh flew the Atlantic. 40 songs were promptly written about him in the U. S. Some were serious, some slapstick, all packed with platitudes. "Lucky Lindy" and "Lindbergh, the Eagle of the U. S. A." were most popular but they were soon forgotten. It was a German importation on the Lindbergh theme which Conductor Leopold Stokowski considered worthy of two Philadelphia orchestra performances in Philadelphia last week. Perhaps because it was composed expressly for radio performance,*Stokowski chose to give it in the last of four nationwide broadcasts sponsored by the Philadelphia (Philco) Storage Battery...
...gradually becoming echoes. Yet when a major change in Transamerica's management took place last week, the Founder's spirit was still present and active. Out of the company's presidency went his son, Lawrence Mario Giannini. Into it went one of his oldest and best friends, James Augustus Bacigalupi...
...James Augustus Bacigalupi, onetime (1924-30) president of Bank of Italy, succeeded Lawrence Giannini, son of Amadeo Peter Giannini, as president of Transamerica Corp...
...revealed last fortnight by Bishop Albert Augustus David of Liverpool (TIME, March 16), a number of Anglican Bishops at last year's Lambeth Conference were privily agreed that the sexual relationship "even in marriage must be regarded as a regrettable necessity. . . . Except where children are desired, married persons should remain celibate after marriage, as before." In this recommendation of abstinence, three of the 28 members of the Federal Council's Committee on Marriage and the Home concurred: Mrs. Robert Elliott Speer, president of the National Board of the Young Women's Christian Associations; Mrs. Orrin R. Judd, president...
...English are represented by a large number of paintings which include the works of such men as Spencer Frederick Gore, Duncan Grant. Augustus John, and Bernard Meninsky. Of these, Augustus John is represented by the largest number paintings, including three oils, three drawings, and one watercolor. Many of the paintings in the exhibition we lent by the Fogg Art Museum, Brooklyn Museum and the Hackett galleries...