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Conducting the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra at the Edinburgh Festival, Britain's terrible-tempered Conductor Sir Thomas Beecham paused between downbeats to take a swipe at his Scottish host. The Edinburgh Festival and others like it are "bunk." said Sir Thomas. "They are for the purpose of attracting trade for the town. What that has to do with music I don't know...
Unnerved by the river people's fatalistic fortitude and inexplicable joys, the American takes to his bunk with a psychosomatic sort of fever. There, Su-ling, almond-eyed wife of the junk owner, feeds him broths plus the harsh poetic lore of the "Ten-Thousand Mile River." Once well, the engineer excitedly spills hints of his company's plan to harness the river, tame its power, eliminate the backbreaking tasks of the trackers. Su-ling is horrified at the American's impiety in even thinking of tampering with the sacred Great River, and begs him to breathe...
...devout and earnest Christian prayer is worth more in the healing of the human mind and heart than all the bunk-shooting of all the psychoanalysts in the world...
Both the problem of crowded houses, and the special plight of the commuter could best be alleviated by the building of new Commuters' Center. If commuters were given a library which could hold more than sixteen tightly packed people, a dining hall looking less like Hayes-Bickford, and bunk-room large enough to accomodate the finals rush, commuters might find their center almost enviable. With their tutors in the same building, rather than a block away, their center would also seem more like a house. An additional bit of prestige might also be added by giving the commuters a housemaster...
...five reporters had canceled their bookings in a huff. Uneasily the line admitted that Grace had indeed requested that a way be found to keep newsmen at a distance. But when the howl went up, she relented. The compromise: there wil be two press conferences aboard ship Reporters will bunk four to a room in cabin class because of the crush, but will have first-class privileges...