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...published a Cake Walk version of I Dreamt That I Dwelt in Marble Halls, from Balfe's opera, The Bohemian Girl. The skies did not fall, but ever since then it has been good publicity: 1) to jazz a well-known classic or dead-serious folksong, 2) to goad a few naive busybodies into protest, 3) to pretend that the incident is splitting the world of music into two opposing camps of foamy-lipped zealots...
...Oakland, Calif., Cleone Goad, 13, married Leonard Newlun, 30. Miss Goad's mother's husband is a brother of Mr. Newlun. Consequently, Cleone is her mother's sister-in-law, and her stepfather is her brother...
...writing and, in case a union fails to live up to a contract, to deprive it of its right of employe representation; 3) to establish a fair practice code for Labor just as there is now such a code for employers. Chief importance of these proposals was as a goad to the New Deal majority, but important for itself was another march stolen last week by Senator Vandenberg. He drafted a new child labor amendment to the Constitution and last week the Senate Judiciary Committee not only endorsed it unanimously, but told the Senate that there was every reason...
...learn their faults from his good-natured, critical banter. He rarely smokes, never drinks, forbids swearing during crew practice. He methodically records the conditions, time and distance of each day's rowing. To avoid overtraining he ceases coaching a week before the major races. His favorite starting-line goad: "It doesn't mean anything to think you're good-go out and prove it." Upon seeing Washington complete a second sweep at Poughkeepsie last week, Rusty Callow, seated nearby on the observation train, grabbed Al Ulbrickson and kissed him. Harvard as well as Yale has a Washing...
When Boston newshawks tried to goad him into saying something about the Walsh-Sweezey case, he declined, declaring that he didn't know anything about this case. "However," he mentioned, "I've observed a general tendency in universities that when a professor takes an interest in labor movements, trouble usually occurs...