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...Hungarian March, "Rakoczy"Berlioz *Fantasy, "Zion" Phillipson *Mazurka from "A Life for the Czar" Glinka *"Carmen," Fantasia Bizet *Overture to "The Impresario" Mozart *Prelude to Act III, "Die Meistersinger" Wagner *Piano Concerto No. 2 in C minor, Op. 18 Rachmaninoff Soloist; Jesus Maria Sanroma *"Briar Rose," Waltz from "The Sleeping Beauty" Tchaikovsky *Song of the Volga Bargemen Arranged by Jacchia *Sixth Hungarian Dance Brahms *Selections checked (*) are available on records at Briggs & Briggs Music Stors, Harvard Square...
...slightest jolt of a bus or taxicab was enough to send a Womack sprawling. In elevators and department stores in Missouri, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan and Tennessee, the Womacks repeatedly stumbled over the smallest objects-light cords, tools, lipsticks, cigaret lighters, mousetraps, nails, pencils, or briar pipes-many of which had not been in evidence before they arrived. One Womack tripped on a bead. For the most part the Womack women did the falling, the Womack men acting as witnesses. Using such names as Opal Irkman or Bertha Curd, the Womacks had figured in at least 65 accidents which brought them...
...France paid the least attention at this stage of the game, least of all Communist Leader Maurice Thorez and Socialist Leader Blum himself. These two had decided upon a policy of lying low for the present, letting the more moderate new Premier of France, genial Camille Chautemps, a briar-sucking Radical Socialist, find money for a busted Treasury, support for the franc, and technicians able to grapple with France's increasingly ugly adverse trade balance...
When the 30 hunters straggled back to their rustic hotel that evening, only Professor Canning had bagged a boar. He told his story with becoming modesty: "Bryson saw the tracks and said, 'Get in front.' About that time he pointed out two boars in a briar patch. I tried to shoot the big one, but I started shaking and my eyes watered until I couldn't see. When I got control of myself the big one was gone. I shot at the smaller one and he went down. We got close and had to shoot three more...
...travels about the country began to settle over the Landon parlor as the radio announcers kept shouting monotonously: "Roosevelt ahead in New York, Roosevelt has lead in Pennsylvania, Roosevelt has 2-to-1 lead in. . . ." As he had on his train, Alf Landon, smiling, joking, puffing at an old briar pipe, did his best to brighten things up. About 9 p. m. the Florists' Telegraph Association sent in a six-foot composition sunflower as tribute to his "Americanism." "Come on, Theo," cried he to Mrs. Landon, "let's get our picture took while we still have a chance...