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Conductor Frederick Stock suggested the Pittsfield Festivals and to house them Mrs. Coolidge bought a little Cape Cod church, dismantled it and moved it to South Mountain. She commissioned scores from composers. They would dedicate them to her, give her the manuscripts. In six years her collection and her concerts had such prestige that she decided to build a chamber music hall in Washington, D. C. and to endow the Music Division of the Library of Congress. The hall cost her $94,000, the yearly endowment $25,000.* Washington festivals supplanted the ones in Pittsfield. There was new music...
...Student Employment Office recently found it impossible to find among any of the students one capable of handling a bartender's job at a Cape Cod hotel this summer. Such a situation is appalling as well as unbelievable. Certainly there must be some students experienced in the subtle art of mixing drinks but the facts seem to indicate that such is not the case. Perhaps Harvard is becoming an oasis in the new era of freely obtained McCoy beverages. Would you believe...
...Norfolk, Va. in 1909, sent to Chatham Episcopal Institute where she played her first role in the commencement play, and to Sullins College. Her father gave her permission to study dancing for a year. She went to Boston, switched from dancing to the theatre, played juvenile leads in Cape Cod stock companies. When she first went to Hollywood, she had had more stage experience than Katherine Hepburn : a year in Elmer Harris's The Modern Virgin, a season on the road in Strictly Dishonorable, the ingenue role in Dinner at Eight for two months...
...menu from which the client may order according to his dog's tastes or his veterinarian's advice. Entrees include beef hearts (16? per lb.), beef liver (20? ), beef kidneys (19? ), beef head meat (12? ), lamb (16? ), lamb hearts (16? ), tripe (11? ) and tongue (21? ). Beverages are cod liver oil, haliveroil, lime water, goats' milk, beef broth...
...shark" (because it eats mackerel and looks a little like one) and New Zealand fishermen, who hate & fear it, call it "the great mako." It lives mostly in the South Seas and off New Zealand but, straying over the world, it has been seen as far north as Cape Cod. Largest ever caught was hooked off New Zealand in 1931 by one H. Wickham-White. It was 11 ft. 6 in. long, 6 ft. 2 in. in girth and weighed 798 Ib. No man-eating has been proved against the mako, but fishermen who have fearfully watched its great, jagged...