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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Debussy: Preludes, Book 2 (Walter Gieseking, pianist; Columbia: 12 sides). A top-rank pianist and No. 1 Debussy-boy, massive, snorting, French-born German Pianist Gieseking completes the finest set of Debussy piano performances yet recorded...
Last week there were glimmers of light in the gloom. Luxembourg was still silent, but Normandie was back (identified now as International Broadcasting Co.), from 7 a. m. to 8 p. m., with all its old zip and a set of sponsors recommending such soldier-boy comforts as Reudel's Rest-Your-Feet Salts, Freezone Corn Cure, Horlick's Night Starvation Dried Milk. After business hours, Normandie continued to do its bit till 1 a. m., broadcasting propaganda to Austrians and Czechs...
Last week the London press still printed cheery little notes from city children evacuated to the countryside. A small boy wrote: "Dear Mum and Dad, please send Colin and me some more trousers. We have been blackberrying. I have scores of mosketoe bites. P.S.-Please send some more muney. I have 4d. and Colin only has 2d." A small girl: "The lady's little girl is three weeks older than me, but I'm bigger. ... She says I talk funny. I told her I'm a Cockerney. Her uncle is a sailor too. Tell Dad to look...
...other ball players and rock fighters in Cincinnati when he was a boy, William Howard Taft was large but not lubberly. At Yale he worked hard, though he complained about it. As a young lawyer he was sound if seldom successful. As an Ohio Circuit Judge between 1892 and 1900 he was happier, and in one anti-trust decision soberly took issue with a more lenient Supreme Court. As president of the Philippine Commission, he replaced military rule with the rule of law, achieved one of those enormous successes that make diffident men more diffident. Time after time his enthusiastic...
...praise of the improvement the Harvard squad had made. The Sophomores, of course, came in for a lion's share of the plandits, but it was Senior Tom Healey who was the apple of Dick's eye. Of Worcester Tom, he said, "the best game of tackle any Harvard boy has ever played...