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Favored with a cool evening and a novel blue sky, the Glee Club ducked out from Sever 11 last night to line Widener's steps for the first of its two Yard Concerts. Taking their cur from the 7 o'clock chapel bell, the songsters led off with the Harvard Hymn, strayed from there through Virgil Thomson and Handel, and then chorused home with a brace of football songs, abetted--if not too precisely-- by the audience...
...18th Century death seemed "selfconscious . . . with . . . eyes less on God than on the bystanders." When the priest rose to leave Mme. Pompadour's bedside, she stopped him. "One moment, M. le Curé," she said, "and we will depart together." Cracked Voltaire, when a lamp flared in his death chamber: "The flames? Already...
...stories, some funny, some sad as hell, and filled with new ideas on how to get an idea into the poor little heads. Then, after dishes, I start to work on next day's plans. At 10, or more frequently midnight, I creep to bed like a licked cur, only to dream of teaching. How I hate it and how I love...
lines on the international routes, where the foreign competition is most apt to be brass-knuckled. Although commercial fly ing across the Atlantic is brand-new to T.W.A. and American, flying the oceans is old stuff. American, for example, is cur rently flying seven round trips a day over the North Atlantic for the Army's Air Transport Command...
...Government hopes to increase the supply of beef and pork. This week Economic Stabilizer William H. Davis explained how: ¶Higher prices ($7 million more) will be paid to packers of Army beef, and all packers who operated profitably in peace time and can prove a loss from their cur rent packing operations will receive a special subsidy. In addition...