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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...were not yet 16 included one scholarship recipient and composed .62 percent of the class. Forty three were under 17, 4.48 percent of the entire aggregation. These 17 years old totaled 337 (35.14 per cent), while the 18-year-olds figured uppermost with a count of 442 and percentage...
Because old places are living things in time-soaked Charleston, it was not in human for the city to count its casualties in terms of history. Unroofed or other wise seriously injured were "the only Huguenot Church in America" (1681); St. Philip's Church, in whose graveyard lie the bones of Statesman John C. Calhoun and the William Rhett who captured Pirate Stede ("Bluebeard") Bonnet; City Hall, once a branch of the Bank of the United States which Andy Jackson and Henry Clay rowed about; Miles Brewton House (1765), where Lord Cornwallis once stayed during the Revolution. Razed...
Most important single fact about Toulouse-Lautrec is that both his legs were broken and stopped growing when he was 14. His noble father, Count Alphonse, who was interested mainly in falcons and thoroughbred horses, promptly lost interest in Henri. Among the best things in Gerstle Mack's book are excerpts from young Lautrec's whimsical convalescent letters, a quaint "Zig Zag Journal'1 he kept at 16, his first sassy comments on art exhibitions in Paris. But as Lautrec became mature and bitterly familiar with his deformity, the pleasures of cafe conversation took the place...
...these have shown fight--Dean, whose fast ball has passed on and who now pitches with his heart; Lee, who took the mound on four out of five days during the pennant spurt. Rather it is because of that Irish catcher who hails from around these parts. The count was two strikes and no balls on this lad last week; there were none on base and two out; the score was tied, and the game was to be called at the end of the inning. And he hit the next Pirate pitch into the left field stands...
Texas Shuffle (Count Basic; Decca). An excellent example of Basic's exciting counterpoint background...