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...Woodworth will welcome into the Glee Club almost anyone from a Caruso to a bathroom tenor; and provided that one's voice is not too painfully crow-like or one's musical instincts too hopelessly at odds with the more authoritative notions of the composer, the prospects of becoming a permanent member are excellent. Once a member, real musical enjoyment is almost guaranteed. Faithful attendance at rehearsals is rewarded by inclusion in the concert list and the final big concert of the year with the Radcliffe Choral Society in Symphony Hall is well worth the preparation...
...usual, the prime issue when Missouri held its primaries. On an anti-Pendergast platform William Hirth, longtime head of the Missouri Farmers' Association, ran hard & fast after the Democratic nomination for Governor, but not hard & fast enough to prevent Boss Pendergast's man. Major Lloyd Crow Stark of Louisiana. Mo. from winning, 3-to-1. Even the fact that Major Stark, a famed nurseryman whose family originated "Stark's Delicious" apple, had never before run for office could not keep the Pendergastians from an overwhelming victory...
...vicious spout swung inland from the bay off Swansea, Wales, struck a hillside, gutted a row of houses, washed 8,000 tons of earth, rock, debris and human beings to the bottom of the slope. Once a waterspout hit a White Star liner headon, doused the crow's nest, slopped tons of water on the decks, wrecked the bridge and chartroom, flooded cabins. Five years ago Bordeaux housewives reaped a harvest of small fish swept up from the River Garonne into a water twister, carried inshore and deposited wriggling in the streets...
Meanwhile the American Legion, which in 1934 called on State legislatures to enact the hateful Oaths as part of its "Americanism Program," humbly recanted. Dispatched to Portland to eat crow was Agnes Samuelson's good friend, Editor Frank Miles of the Iowa Legionnaire, who announced: "The national commander [James Raymond Murphy] authorizes me to say that he believes the Legion would make a mistake if it advocated the Teachers' Oath Bill." Explained Legionary Miles: "The Legion wants the youth of America to think...
This week, on June 19, a sombre strip of darkness fled across one side of the earth as the moon passed in front of the sun. Like a crow's shadow, at dawn the eclipse trailed over Athens, leaped the Golden Horn, spanned the Black Sea, darkened Omsk, Tomsk, Kansk, crossed the Khingan Mountains into Northern Manchukuo, the Japan Sea into the Island of Hokkaido, then passed 2,800 mi. out into the Pacific where it spent itself at sundown...