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...most important U. S. composers. But New Yorkers who went to last week's Philadelphia Orchestra concert were not deeply impressed by the fact that Conductor Eugene Ormandy had chosen to play Sowerby's Prairie. Listeners for whom most modern music is synonymous with unfathomable din were asked to imagine themselves alone in an Illinois cornfield far away from railways, motorcars, telephones and radios...
Behind a barrier of Secret Service guards President-elect Roosevelt stood up in his car, waved his arms at the panicky onlookers. His clear voice rang strongly above the din: "I'm all right! I'm all right." His car started out of the packed people. Somebody jumped on the running board yelling: "Mayor Cermak's shot." Mr. Roosevelt had the car stopped. "Good Lord!" he exclaimed. "Bring him here. Put him in my car." Supported by William Wood, Dade County Democratic leader, Chicago's "World's Fair Mayor,"* sagging with shock, was lifted into...
...French Foreign Legion. Years of pumping machine gun bullets into Syria's more savage tribes finally brought peace in 1927. Under French dominance, the so- called "Syrian Republic" was proclaimed and provided with a Constitution and a Sheik Premier. It was he, the potent Sheik Taj-ed-Din Effendi, who made Syria news last week...
Solemnly the priests waited upon Sheik Taj-ed-Din. "Excellency, the Yo-Yo is the reason for the drought!" they cried. "The up-and-down movement of these infidel tops counteracts the prayers of the pious for rain. Allah is angry! Rain will never fall again in Syria while the wicked play with...
...gave up and announced, "It was all due to a misunderstanding." Chicagoans felt that the Hertz-McCulloch group allowed him to remain as president for sentimental reasons. Last week he resigned, was succeeded by William Murphy Collins, 55, oldtime Chicago restaurant man who sold Philip Henrici's ("No Orchestral Din") to the Thompson chain in 1929. Four days before President Thompson resigned Mr. Collins, also a large stockholder, was made chairman of the company...