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Died. Alexis Cardinal Charost, 69, Archbishop of Rennes; in Rennes, France. In the World War, as Bishop of Lille when that city was first occupied by the Germans, he encouraged his flock to passive resistance against the invaders...
...cinema performances; to give employment to musicians. Mr. Skalski, 35, is energetic, hopeful. Three years ago he went to Chicago as a piano teacher, last year had an orchestra with which he gave six concerts. This year's program is based on the idea that crowds will flock to music if they can suit their own convenience as to time, as they do in going to the cinema. For 15 weeks three continuous programs will be played by Skalski daily. A typical program: classical music at 6:30 p.m., popular music at 8 p.m., semi-popular music...
Soon Pastor Duane B. Aldrich explained to his amazed, amused and scandalized flock: he had instructed the stewards to whistle every time a dollar bill or more was dropped in the plates. There had been 105 whistles...
There is plenty of theoretical argument against branchbanking. There is also much sentiment against it, for oldtime U. S. banking tradition is one of local "unit" independence (the local small-town banker a fatherly financial shepherd to his local flock). Also, for practical purposes, potent bankers have found it prudent to disclaim any intention of becoming more potent lest such designs should offend small bankers who, meanwhile, must be their principal customers. Therefore, the merging-grouping trend had to move until it had half-swept the nation before the A. B. A. dared approve it. And even last week...
Taken completely unawares, the Press unleashed a flock of accounts varying even more wildly than their earlier speculations. The Brattvaag had bodies of all three explorers?Andree, Nils Strindberg & Knut Fraenkel?well preserved (Associated Press). The Brattvaag had the body of Andree, of another not identified, and the scattered bones of a third (New York Herald Tribune}. There were two skeletons, the bones of a third; Andree's head, in many fragments, had been found later (Universal Service). There were two bodies, Andree's and Fraenkel's. Andree "had been found in a sitting posture, reclining a little...