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...Modern Pentathlon, run off on five successive days, was invented by the romantic Swedes, has invariably been won by one. The Swede who won last week, Count Johan Gabriel Oxenstierna, did it without placing first in any of the five events. He was fourth in the riding (on unfamiliar mounts over 500 metres of un familiar terrain), 14th in fencing (with buttoned épees), second in the pistol shoot (at disappearing targets with a 45-calibre revolver), fifth in the swimming, seventh in running 4,000 metres across rough country. Point total...
From night till early in the dawn; The eyes of Texas are upon you Till Gabriel blows his horn. The president passed on to his fathers; the song lived. It became the University's favorite melody. It spread to become a sort of unofficial State song. Today it not only rallies football teams; it is played by bands when parades pass the Governor...
Sworn in at Washington as he was about to conduct a Coast Guard Cadet cruise through South American waters was Rear Admiral Harry Gabriel Hamlet. He is 58, the big-boned, white-haired son of a New England revenue cutter captain. One of his first jobs with the Coast Guard was on the famed cutter Bear, rescuing distressed whaling ships in the Arctic. In the War he commanded the converted yacht convoy Marietta. Since 1928 Admiral Hamlet has been superintendent of the Coast Guard Academy at New London, Conn. His new appointment fills the post left vacant by Rear Admiral...
...else quite dared to put them on a formal program -in all Eva Gauthier has introduced more than 700 songs. Last week's program was typically distinctive. Jean-Baptiste Lully, court musician to Louis XIV, was a classical beginning far off the beaten track. Then there was Gabriel Faure, the French man who transmitted his fragile, elusive style to the more popular Maurice Ravel. Every song had its mood subtly, surely conveyed. Toward the end a ghoulish piece by Modernist Alban Berg (Wozzeck) was done so effectively that a sudden wail which came from the audience struck people...
Died. Samuel Davis, 52, "Angel Gabriel" in Marc Connelly's The Green Pastures, who cries, "Gangway for the Lawd God Jehovah"; of heart disease; in Indianapolis. He was the second "Angel Gabriel" to die. His predecessor, C. Wesley Hill, was struck down by an automobile...