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...SINGING CROW-Nathalia Crane-A. & C. Boni ($2). A dreadful eventuality has not yet come to pass-the growing up of Miss Nathalia Crane. Her songs are still those of a little Brooklyn girl for whom hydrants must be gnomes and subway trains coffin worms. Nor has anyone yet dismally and satisfactorily explained the marvelous process by which a slender chit-she is only 13 now- became possessed of the divine afflatus, plus a vocabulary that would give nightmares to a lexicographer...
...title poem of her new volume is a narrative, in couplets of prodigious tune and cacophony, of a crow whose beak was shot away by an Indian arrow. So marvelously could he then sing that universal applause shook the marshlands. The scrub oaks roared, the cattails clicked, The bumblebees lay down and kicked. A council of crows sat to hear the amazing music and departed mystified, all but a nunlike raven, who found the beakless Caruso and adored...
...final ceremony of a four-day celebration to inaugurate as president of Fisk young Thomas Elsa Jones, last year a graduate student in sociology at Columbia University, chosen by the Fisk trustees, after a long search, to fill the boots of Dr. Fayette Avery McKenzie, against whose alleged "Jim Crow" methods Fisk students struck last year (TIME, Feb. 16, 1925). To give President Jones a good send-off and to impress Fisk students with the permanence of the Fisk policy of a white president (often they have asked for a black), Chairman Paul Drennan Cravath* and his fellow trustees arranged...
...storm the property loss will exceed $100,000,000, yet there is no interruption of business in Miami, and we are very sure that TIME would not consciously add to our difficulties by the publication of exaggerated or untruthful stories emanating from sources that are not reliable. . . . L. W. CROW...
Morning naps and week-ends will crow in popularity. However, if Yale authorities can find enough attractive bribes to retain the nurse, they are indeed to be commended Lightly. Later, perhaps, they can even tell us how much to offer our nurse...