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Franny Simpson, basketball captain-elect, was operated on for appendicitis during Easter vacation and is convalescing at his home in Oak Park, Illinois. He is expected back at school very soon...
Other religious music pales beside the Mass. Mozart and Beethoven both wrote masses of unquestionable beauty, but since they were more in the secular tradition than Bach they did not succeed so well in pouring into these works their own greatness of spirit. The Easter music from "Parsifal" likewise, for all its magic, seems mere tour de force, coloristic effect, next to the Mass; Wagner was concerned chiefly with recreating the atmosphere of legend and not with creating a setting for Christian devotion. The Bach B minor Mass is, in fact, a unique work. Consequently, its performance next Sunday...
...women along a 120-yard stretch. In the same area about 100 males were "engaged in this vile business. In Piccadilly 22 men were loitering. Many of them were painted and powdered and in a few cases were wearing high-heeled shoes.";Concurrently, with the opening of Easter Law Sittings, began the greatest flood of British divorces since Henry VIII started a church of his own so he could divorce Catherine of Aragon to marry Anne Boleyn. The rush was accounted for by a combination of wartime psychology and two-year-old liberalization of Britain's divorce law (admitting...
...Cabinet shifts prompted by the near-scandal in the Supply Ministry or a public desire for more or less war action were scheduled for consideration by the Government during the Easter recess. Indications were that they would not be nearly so drastic as those in France. If a more intensified Sitzkrieg were on the books, an inner War Cabinet under pat-standing Foreign Secretary Viscount Halifax was in the cards. If blitzkrieging were in order, the Admiralty's pugnacious Winston Churchill was the man for the job. Otherwise, the Government would just rock along under the direct leadership...
...these screaming headlines the Salvation Army War Cry (Central States edition) this week reported the events of a 1,910-year-old Easter. Pretense: this is the way an imaginary paper,the Jerusalem Dally News, might have told the story. Excerpts...