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...trolleys were temporarily immobilized and a woman ran screaming from a student-rocked car. Aerials were ripped from passing cars and the steering mechanism on a parked automobile. As the police pushed people into the shutting wagons a student chant called out for the six day week...
...fizzle for lack of help from him, he stationed Superintendent of Sewers Thomas D. Garry in a basement room fitted with an electrical pipeline to the stadium loudspeakers; on cue, Garry (ever since known as "The Voice from the Sewer") gave out with a clamorous "We want Roosevelt!" chant that was taken up by Kellymen posted about the floor, swelled to a convention-stampeding roar...
...coast-to-coast hookup last week NBC broadcast what Chaplin had heard. To most listeners, the menhaden fishermen's chants, more religious than piscatorial in flavor, had a good deal in common with the best of Negro "spirituals," but they also had a fresh, saltwater tang all their own. Sample (the Barnegat's favorite chant...
After reading Ernest Hemingway's new novel, Across the River and into the Trees* only the most sentimental referee could raise Hemingway's arm with the old chant: "The winner and still champion!" Hemingway likes to discuss his writing in prize-ring talk but the fact is that a writer can be licked only by himself. In Across the River, Hemingway never wins a round. Friendly fans, willing to wait for the big book that he is still working on, which "is about the sea, the air and the land" (see below), can only hope that the champ...
...first few bars of a Peruvian folk chant called High Andes, the full-figured Peruvian girl onstage rumbled roundly at the bottom of contralto range. Then, to their astonishment, she soared effortlessly up a full four octaves, began trilling like a canary at the top of coloratura. At the end of her first song, the audience was still too surprised to raise more than warm applause. The second, Tumpa (Earthquake), brought cheers; after the third, a pyrotechnical Inca Hymn to the Sun, the applause and cheers swelled to a roar for encores. Guest Conductor Arthur Fiedler, who had a plane...