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Fortnight ago, the price of domestic copper took another drop, from 10? to 9? a pound. Last week, Mountain Con, one of the two U. S. air-conditioned copper mines, and the Belmont, both at Butte, Mont., were shut down by Anaconda Copper Mining Co. To Anaconda, world's largest producer of copper, the domestic price cut symbolized U. S. Depression. It also marked another downswing in another copper cycle...
Ernst Hoffmann. '18, Guest Conductor "Cruiser Harvard," MarchStrube *Overture to "Oberon" Weber *Three German Dances Mozart *Symphony No. 5, "From the New World," Allegro con fuoco Dvorak G. Wallace Woodworth, '24, Guest Conductor Music for Freemasons Mozart Soloist Joseph E. Lautner Tarantella Randall Thompson, '20 Cannon: "O Due Eselhafter Martin" Mozart Symphony No. 2, Final Randall Thompson, '20 *Choruses from the Yeomen of the Guard Sullivan Soloist: D. P. MacAllester, '38 The Harvard Glee Club Leroy Anderson, '29, Guest Conductor *Dance of the Buffoons, From "Snow Maiden" Rimsky-Korsakov *"Vienna Life," Waltzes Strauss *Harvard Fantasy Leroy Anderson, '29 Fair Harvard...
...from the "Caucasian Sketches" Ippelitov-Ivanov *Overture to "Mignon" Thomas *Prelude to "The Afternoon of a Faun" Debussy *Fifth Hungarian Dance Brahms *Peer Gynt, Suite No. 1 Grieg Morning Mood-Anitra's Dance-In the Hall of the Troll King *Londonderry Air Arranged by Sir Hamilton Harty *Finale (Allegro con fuoco), Fourth Symphony Tchaikovsky *The Chocolate Soldier, Selection Oscar Strauss *The Old Refrain Kreisler *March, "Indigo" from "1001 Nights" Johann Strauss *Selections checked (*) are available on records at Briggs & Briggs Musle Store, Harvard Square...
When Mr. Clemmer asked his convicts what they admired in their leaders, he obtained a great range of answers, including: "courage, generosity, modesty, education, an interesting vocabulary, personal cleanliness, clever gambling, the ability to 'con' (fool) officials, a reputation for holding liquor, possession of money ... a large body of knowledge about a particular technique of crime, a fund of vulgar jokes or songs, the possession of attitudes against the judiciary, the prison administration, the parole board and God, demonstrable sophistication in female companionship as evidenced by suggestive letters, the dignity and poise that come to some men after...
...CON T. SHEA...