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...than 1959's thoroughly mediocre harvest, the Chinese Communists seemed to be preparing their hungry people for the worst harvest since they took over in 1949. Already cut to a daily ration of 1,750 calories, Chinese commune workers were being admonished by mess-hall signs: "It is glorious to eat less than one's food ration...
...album also includes two folk songs arranged by Mr. Forbes, following the tradition of his predecessors; a Tarantella by Elliot Carter, '30; and for the certain delight of the many friends of the Glee Club, an absolutely wonderful performance of Glorious Apollo...
Thus last week ended one of the least glorious competitions in newspaper history. When three brothers, Max, John and Louis Levand, took over the Beacon in 1928, they introduced a style of journalistic alley fighting that the rival Eagle had never seen before. Goaded to fury, Eagle Publisher Marcellus M. Murdock replied in kind. The contest quickly degenerated into a nasty feud waged in the pages of the Beacon and Eagle with such bitterness that there rarely seemed room for legitimate news. The Eagle squandered news columns on insinuations that the Levands were chiselers; the Levands, who are Jewish, periodically...
Jewish Diaspora will have been the pioneer and pilot community of the new kind. That is a glorious role . . . Let it take heart, and seize its destiny with both hands, now that its long travail is at last on the verge of bearing fruit...
...lion from New York and invited the public to his house to look at him, "nine pence, each person." Long before his death, he had an elaborate tomb built on his grounds and enjoyed sitting in it during the heat of the day. But he made his most glorious splash when he had a local artist carve some 40 lifesize wooden figures, including one of himself, which were scattered around his grounds and became the town's most irresistible attraction...