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...departing members of 10-13, having mind and body, do hereby take the opportunity to pass on, and, in some cases to re-assign certain properties extant upon this campus...
Sweet Encyclopedist. Jimmy is probably the hardest-working millionaire extant. He eats little (two raw eggs for breakfast), sleeps little (about five hours), reads widely (keeps an encyclopedia in the bathroom). Jackson and Roth never leave him alone; all three continually fuss over each other's colds, headaches. Jimmy goes to the cemetery every Sunday-in New York, to visit his father's grave; in Holly wood, to decorate his wife...
...learn that one class of the Army Air Forces Bombardier School at Midland, Texas, has voted you "the girl we would most like to be alone with in the nose of an AT-II." It is most harmlessly gratifying of all to realize that, though there is no extant Garson cheesecake (except the sporran shots from Random Harvest), you get nearly as many requests for pin up pictures as Betty Grable herself...
...them explore themes suggested by their titles-Cowell's, for example, uses a Mexican air. Fanfare, a French word of possible Moorish derivation, is allied to the Elizabethan stage directions sennet (also senet, sennate, cynet, signet, signate) and tucket, both indicating musical flourishes. There are no musical samples extant of sennets and tuckets. Sennet may have derived from "seven," perhaps meant a seven-note trumpet call. Tucket most probably stems from the Italian toccata (meaning a touch), and in all likelihood originally signified a drum sound...
...Persia in 1863 by one Mirzá Husayn-'Ali, who took the name of Bahá'u'lláh (Glory of God). His followers emphasize the unity of mankind, universal peace, abolishment of extreme inequalities of wealth, and a world faith absorbing all religions now extant. Prominent Bahá'is include Mrs. Lewis Stuyvesant Chanler, wife of New York's onetime lieutenant governor. The Wilmette Temple's nine sides symbolize the world's nine chief religions, but not all Bahá'is agree as to what those religions are. Among...