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...young friends, both fond of fishing & sailing, stood on New Brunswick's Campobello Island and looked across the water. They saw the 20-ft. tide of the Bay of Fundy seethe and storm between the rocky islands on the border between Maine and Canada, flooding the basins of Cobscook and Passamaquoddy Bays. One of the men was a promising young engineer named Dexter Parshall Cooper. His youthful companion, a rising young politician, was Franklin D. Roosevelt. Engineer Cooper explained a great dream of his: to throw a string of dams between the islands, harness that galloping tide to make...
Last week New Brunswick wrote the final sentence in a murder case rarely matched for rustic deviltry...
Mother Bannister enlivened her trial, the first for kidnapping in New Brunswick, by howling so industriously in her wooden cage that the lawyers had to shout back & forth. The jury acquitted Mrs. Bannister of kidnapping, found her guilty of extortion and of "harboring" Betty Ann, a crime involving a maximum penalty of three and a half years in jail...
Sirs: . . . Several clays after you published your story anent Hal Kemp's Brunswick recording of the famous Hungarian suicide song, Gloomy Sunday, a letter from the composer was received by his good friend and former Budapest studio-mate, Karoly Nyaray, now of New York City. I met Nyaray, who possesses a fine tenor voice, alter I heard him sing Szomorú Vasárnap on Columbia's Hungarian record of Gloomy Sunday. He showed me the letter and translated it for me. ... I am quoting...
...played by Hal Kemp and his usually lively band, Brunswick's Gloomy Sunday wallows dismally along in E flat minor, the dirge effect enhanced by a pair of French horns, and ends with a coda apparently suggested by Chopin's Funeral March. Vocalist Bob Allen and other members of the Kemp band were notice ably affected while making the record, played 21 "masters" before turning out one good enough to record. Few who listened to the Kemp recording for Brunswick or Paul Whiteman's for Victor or Henry King's for Decca failed to confess that...