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...Jaunty and glib, Colonel Marmaduke Grove has figured in several Chilean revolutions, attempted one in 1930, using for purposes of getting into Chile from Argentina the airplane Friendship in which Passenger Amelia Earhart first crossed the Atlantic. Captured by troops loyal to Dictator Ibanez, the Colonel was exiled to Easter Island. There he pumped the Chilean Governor of this colony so full of revolutionary ideas that Governor & Colonel set out in a small boat to Tahiti, later made their way to France. In July 1931, after Dictator Ibanez was ousted, Colonel Grove returned to Chile, has been intriguing ever since...
...Miss Easter, if you don't stop roarin' an' bawlin' an' tearin' on the red raw minute yell be gettin' tally-whack an' tandam where ye'll not like it." So admonished by her nurse, little Easter, the story's heroine, manages to mind her P's & Q's for a minute, but not for more. There are her cousins Evelyn and Basil to get into mischief with, and Patsy the scullery boy. Patsy breeds ferrets in an overstuffed armchair, knows the countryside and its sports like...
...remainder of the program will be under the direction of Dr. A. T. Davison '05 and G. W. Woodworth '24. This union with the Choral Society is the first since the Bach B-minor Mass was presented in Symphony Hall during the afternoon and evening of Easter...
William Henry Cardinal O'Connell. Archbishop of Boston, who lately flayed radio jazz and "crooners" (TIME, Jan. 18), broadcast over NBC in Boston an introduction to a scheduled program of Easter music from the Vatican. At the end of his remarks the transatlantic radio blared forth not the Vatican choir but, thanks to a studio mixup in Rome, an Italian band torturing U. S. jazz...
...Congressional committee room in Washington, D. C. stepped Owen D. Young and wearily dropped into a chair. He was sightseeing, he explained. He needed rest while his son Dick, 12, climbed to the Capitol dome. Said Banker Young: "I've brought each of my children to Washington on Easter when they reached 12. He is the last. ... I have found how much [the Government] offers physically to the taxpayer. Before I return home I expect to be a qualified guide...