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...return from the whaling trip Traveler Welzl was disembarked, at his own request, on the barren island of New Siberia. He discovered a cave abandoned by Eskimos, dug himself in before the polar storms broke. The winter night descended, the cold stiffened the tossing waves flat. High winter tides exploded the whole ocean's frozen surface into the air, with thunderclaps, bellows, sea-qiiaking crashes. At those sounds many a polar settler has burst out of his cave, run yelling along the shore waving his arms, insane. Traveler Welzl never stirred outside his cave, where the temperature touched 86° below...
Norwegian Bridal Procession by Grieg; Overture, "Fingal's Cave," by Mendelssohn; Waitz Number 15 by Brahms-Gericke; La Source, Ballet Suite, by Delibes, including Scarf Dance, Love Scene, Variation, and Circassion Dance; Scheherazade, Finale by Rimsky-Korsakov; Large by Handel (Solo violin--J. Theodorowicz, Harp, Organ, and Strings); Dance by Debussy, arranged by Ravel; "Of Thee I Sing" Selection, by Gershwin, "Loin du Bal" by Gillet; "Pomp and Circumstance" by Elgar...
When Gerald Collins, 3, fell down a 25-ft. drill hole in Picher. Okla., he got countrywide headlines until rescued, because of the late front-page-famed Floyd Collins, who was not rescued from a Kentucky cave...
Certainly no music on the Honolulu symphony's opening program would inspire riot. Mendelssohn's pleasant, pictorial Fingal's Cave began the concert, Beethoven's great Fifth gave it significance...
...police dragnet arrested the organizer of a general strike, an Italian named Duriti, and dozens of assistants, seized truckloads of pamphlets and posters. Trouble centered further north, about the manufacturing town of Manresa, where 410 years ago St. Ignatius Loyola, founder of the Jesuits, spent a year in a cave preparing his Exercitia Spiritualia...