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...Government broadcasting station (with $50,000 for annual maintenance) with power and equipment adequate not only for short wave broadcasting to South America but for the whole U. S.; 2) instruct the Commissioner of Education to provide programs of national and international interest, running the full educational and entertainment gamut covered by commercial broadcasters...
...inside of an overcrowded, understaffed state institution, makes no attempt to prettify the facts, none to magnify the horrors. The mad, like the sane, have their differing personalities, and in an atmosphere vocally more suggestive of a bird shop than a human habitation. All the Living runs the gamut from a cheerful nut willing to swap the White House for a cigar to sex-tormented schoolteachers and victims of dementia praecox...
...Woodrow Wilson began with a policy of Peace and Preparedness, then took to playing ball with the British and ended up by saving the world for Democracy at a total cost to the U. S. of 126,000 lives and $40,000,000,000. If that was the tragic gamut Mr. Roosevelt was about to embark on, last week the U. S. Senate and House of Representatives wanted to know about it. In the Senate the President's mouthpiece answered categorically NO! Before a House committee the answer sounded for a while like maybe. This week Secretary of State...
...prow of a war galley (see cut, p. 79), the Romans were easily led to believe that Cleopatra had to hold her men with knockout love drops. The kind of men she seduced made her sex appeal even more mysterious. Tall, black-eyed, bald Caesar "had known the whole gamut of indulgence," three or four faithless marriages. Yet Caesar, already married, defied hostile public opinion to keep Cleopatra openly in Rome with their illegitimate son during his last three years, introduced a law permitting him to marry several wives; and at 60, in spite of bad health, was prepared...
...Gamut. Daniel Wolfert, 23, a teacher of the history and appreciation of music at Brooklyn College, launched Gamut Records last June. By last week some three dozen dealers (mostly in Manhattan) were handling Gamut discs. Music Lover Wolfert does his own choosing of records and directing. Best Gamut record to date is a Bach Partita, one of 19 keyboard collections of the prolific German, played on the harpsichord by Dr. Wolff...