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...wearily in his dusty niche high on the silent rafters of Memorial Hall. The strange quiet of early morning is so intense that it pulsates sonorously, and by degrees his tired body seems to be dissolved into the infinite darkness and silence lying round about like a thick, suffocating blanket...
...Leopold Stokowski of the Philadelphia Orchestra, whose powder-puff head evolves enough publicity stunts for a Hollywood jazzster, last week got into the newspapers by suddenly calling to his valet during a rehearsal: "Teddy, bring me my horse!" Valet Teddy trotted out with a wooden buck draped in a blanket and fitted with a shiny new English saddle. Stokowski's men tittered as Trombonist Charles Gusikoff started to p1ay "Horses, Horses, Horses...
...thinking people grounds for apprehension. An added fifty-five million dollar burden of discouragement saddled to the backs of the American tax-payers is an appalling thing to think about, heralded as it has been by the new bonus expenditures. And it is interesting to note that this blanket tax increase was put through on the same day as the adoption of the Finance Committee amendment to impose a processing tax on cocoanut oil imported from the Phillipines, despite the fact that such a step is a direct violation of the Phillipine Independence Act recently passed...
...more venerable, the Vossiche Zeitung was "Auntie Voss" to Berliners. It had reported the battles of Frederick the Great and Napoleon, the rise of Bismarck and the rise of Hitler. Toward Handsome Adolf its attitude was one of disgusted scorn, until he came into power and threw the Nazi blanket over "Auntie Voss' " head. That blanket has suffocated 600 German newspapers. In Hamburg alone four papers gave up last week. And in Berlin "Auntie Voss" expired too, with one last muffled peep...
Just who thought of the novel idea of writing this blanket consent in advance theory into the laws themselves is not generally known, though the authorship is attributed to the so-called "young intellectuals" who came here and introduced into the drafting of laws many ideas which members of Congress accepted in the belief that the President wanted them embodied in the statutes...