Word: class
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Regarding your article under Transport in the March 20 issue of TIME in which you give Pan American's new air fares San Francisco to Honolulu and San Francisco to Hong Kong, you say "comparative boat fares $215, $425." The minimum first class fares on the Matson Line from San Francisco to Honolulu on the Lurline, Mariposa, and Monterey (in a twin-bedded, inside, double room with private toilet) is $125. Matsonia fares are the same but minimum accommodations have no private toilet...
...Music, an industrious writer of acid, modernistic scores, has long believed that the only important function of music is to encourage revolution. In 1929, while staid London music lovers frowned and looked the other way, London's musical leftists, led by Composer Bush, drew throngs to a class-angled production of Handel's venerable sacred oratorio, Belshazzar. Handel's serene 18th-Century score was sung with traditional massiveness by a chorus of 1,800 voices. But it was so staged that the fall of Handel's Babylonians was made to represent the fall of capitalism...
Three policemen and 100 cheering students watched the next champion, M. I. T.'s six-foot-four Albert E. Hayes Jr., wash down 42 fish with four bottles of chocolate soda. He stopped, explained Freshman Hayes, because '42 were his class numerals. Said he: "You lay the goldfish well back on the tongue, let it wiggle forward till it hits the top of the throat, then give one big gulp. Same effect as swallowing a raw oyster...
Having built one scooter, Postman Smith is the smallest operator in a new automotive industry that has grown mightily within the past three years and is now engaged in trying to work itself out of the recreation-vehicle class. Visualized by scooter-makers is a flourishing trade in which one-lung puddle-jumpers will be used for messenger service, light deliveries, transportation of commuters from home to railroad station and back...
...year-old Tom Cullen gave his last lecture at the Hopkins. To celebrate his retirement, his students presented him with a large box. When he opened the box he was startled to find a 15-lb. abdominal tumor. In bewilderment he picked at the tumor, discovered, while the class roared with laughter, that it was no tumor but a cake, covered with reddish-brown icing, and surrounded with "areas of degeneration" made of jelly. Gravely and skillfully Dr. Cullen picked up a scalpel, performed an operation, gave every student a slice...