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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...plaster of Paris) and $32,000 worth of shotgun shells, are held the most important trapshooting events in America. The Vandalia firing line is nearly a mile long. Shooters fire in squads of five over 27 traps, each manned by a corps of trap loaders, pullers, referees, scorers, with expert accountants in the manager's office to keep track of scores. After a week of minor events, Vandalia's shooters gathered last week for the biggest prizes in the two oldest events, the Preliminary Grand American Handicap and, a day later, the Grand American Handicap proper...
...honored snakes to appease gods who might remember their intolerance. Why rain follows the Snake Dance and why the Hopi are not fatally bitten by the snakes are questions many a white man has tried to answer. To the first question they suggest that old Hopi medicine men are expert meteorologists after their fashion. They wait until rain is due, schedule the dance for that day. (The dance is seldom held the same day in successive years.) But the medicine men must be able to forecast rain at least nine days in advance. To the second question answers vary. Some...
...ground and a heavy mist in its wake. Sportsmen standing ankle-deep in the sticky peat of shooting butts had no sooner begun popping at dimly seen grouse than another storm broke and drove them home. But not before a gamekeeper had been shot dead at Clonmannon. Growled an expert: "The worst morning of the Twelfth known in the North for 20 years." The shooting season's inauspicious opening was not due to bad weather alone. U. S. lessors of Scottish estates were conspicuously few. John Pierpont Morgan was there, as were Tycoons Solomon Guggenheim, John W. Converse...
...Tune Detective is expert in tracing down the ancestry of current songs. In lectures and pamphlets Dr. Spaeth has explained his method, which anyone can learn, of separating a song into melody patterns, which may run from two notes to the whole chromatic scale. Some songs come piecemeal from the classics, like "I'm Always Chasing Rainbows" which is found in Chopin's Fantasie Impromptu. Others are scrambled together like "Yes, We Have No Bananas," which contains bits from Handel's Hallelujah Chorus, "My Bonnie," "I Dreamt I Dwelt in Marble Halls," "Aunt Dinah's Quilting...
...Knopf ($2.50). THE FAMILY CIRCLE-Andre Mau-rois-Appleton ($2.50). A GOOD MAN'S LOVE-E. M. Dela-field-Harper ($2.50). THE JOURNEY INWARD - Kurt Heuser-Viking ($2.50). CHARLOTTE BRONTE-E. F. Benson -Longmans, Green ($4). A not unfriendly debunking of the tense Bronte household by the expert Victorianographer of As We Were...