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...popular pieces and a Russian song arranged by Pollack. This band will also furnish the music for the dancing after wants. Ellery Sedgwick '32 will then give an exhibition of magic. All unusually large group of maudolin players will then give excerpts from Sullivan's operatic music. "The Volga Boatmen," and "Dark Eyes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: INSTRUMENTALISTS GIVE ANNUAL CONCERT TODAY | 12/18/1931 | See Source »

Biggest catfish in the world is Old Blue who inhabits the Missouri River and is so big he once got stuck trying to go through a canal lock. But Old Blue exists only in the imaginations of Missouri River boatmen. Last week a real catfish was caught by one Manuel Trigleth in Bee Lake, near Lexington, Miss., which made Manuel Trigleth shout for his father and brother to help pull in the line. Weight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Goodnight Buffaloes | 8/17/1931 | See Source »

Every one of these Parisian features the Davises found in Saigon, true "Paris of the East." But all the way up the Saigon River everything was pure Indo-Chinese: junks, half-naked boatmen in big hats, smiling children who live the merry life of water rats...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Governor General's Junket | 4/6/1931 | See Source »

...funeral, indemnity, the lives of two members of the boatman's guild. If he is not given satisfaction he will destroy the town. As he threatens, his great grey fortress slides forward and the hard mouths of his guns glower down upon the frightened little sampans below. Terrified, the boatmen draw lots, look on while two of their comrades are strangled. Suddenly one agonized voice cries, "Why are we persecuted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays In Manhattan: Nov. 10, 1930 | 11/10/1930 | See Source »

...Boatmen are swimming instructors or sailing masters at yacht clubs. An expert knowledge of sailing and swimming is usually the minimum requirement...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SUMMER POSITIONS ARE VERITABLE GOLD MINE TO GROUP OF HARVARD MEN | 3/12/1930 | See Source »

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