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Died. Bernard ("Bunny") Berigan, 33, veteran trumpet virtuoso, topnotch tooter of the jazz and swing eras; of an intestinal ailment aggravated by trumpeting; in Manhattan. He began as a boy musician, appeared with name bands when he was 18, soloed with Paul Whiteman, Tommy Dorsey, Benny Goodman, organized his own...
In Aztec religion there was no ethical concept-its heaven, like the Greek Hades, was devoid of moral significance. Aztec theology held that in bygone eras mankind had been successively wiped out by jaguars, by hurricanes, by fiery volcanic rains. The Aztecs in 1519 believed that their world would in...
From eras antedeluvian Harvard's Administration had opposed the building of a theatre in Harvard Square as a menace to the moral welfare of undergraduates. Around the turn of the century the Administration was joined by another forward-looking, progressive institution, the Harvard Square Business Men's Association. Together, side...
Between 1890 and 1910 Chicago boomed again, gained 1,000,000 new citizens. "As in previous boom eras," records Asbury, "the underworld more than kept pace. . . ."A reign of terror arose:
But that is not so in the world happenings of today-and I am proud that it is not so. I am glad that we Americans are shocked, that we are angered by the tragic news that has come to us from Belgium and The Netherlands and Luxembourg." He praised...