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Promptly at 2 o'clock three loud knocks sounded on the west door. The ancient bolts were drawn. The portals opened. Twelve trumpeters, standing at the foot of the choir 100 yards away, split the air with a ringing E-flat chord and a fanfare...
That wasn't all, however. White was only grudgingly permitted even to rehearse within the exclusive walls of the Somerset. Apparently he was to materialize in the Balinese Room in time for the program and evaporate as soon as he had twanged his final chord. His brother, who is in the Army, visited him one night, with the result that one of the bigwigs of the management foamed and ranted and all but had the soldier thrown out. It's the sort of story that keeps the Afro-American and the Chicago Defender well supplied with copy...
Three Murders. The murder of Alexander is only the first sinister chord struck in this intensely symphonic book. First of Author West's youthful memories was the assassination of the Empress Elizabeth by the anarchist Luccheni in 1898. "He was an Italian born in Paris of parents forced to emigrate by their poverty and trodden down into an alien criminal class: that is to say, he belonged to an urban population . . . which wandered often workless and always traditionless, without power to control its destiny. It was indeed most appropriate that he should register his discontent by killing Elizabeth...
...storm of the present crisis, on the maintenance of educational standards which permit a maximum exchange of ideas, and a minimum of stereo typed, "follow-the-leader" thought. In the light of such beliefs, the oft-repeated idea of a college "morale-building" program strikes an unpleasant and unresponsive chord in the minds of those who believe in the preservation of academic liberty and in the destruction of intellectual straitjackets...
...accommodated to the schedule of the Southern Pacific Railroad, because the clarinetist was a Pullman conductor. He was an absent-minded clarinetist. When the orchestra played Saint-Saens' Carnival of the Animals, in which the clarinet roops a rooster call, he missed his cue. After the closing chord, the Pullman conductor realized his omission, leaped to his feet, played the rooster call, sat down amid riotous applause...