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With these glowing words last January, Nebraska's grand old Senator George William Norris inaugurated the first session of the unicameral Nebraska Legislature which he had brought into being (TIME, Jan. 11). As that session drew to a close students of government, though granting that a four-month trial was no fair test, were nonetheless interested in surveying its results. These were not spectacular...
Since Republican Doris Bradway became New Jersey's first woman mayor in 1933, her official acts have been investigated no less than ten times by grand juries, legislative and judicial bodies. But try as they might, Mayor Bradway's investigators have been unable to impair her standing with Wildwood's electorate. Last May, still under indictment for assorted official misdeeds ranging from, illegal disbursement of municipal funds to taking gasoline from the city's supply for her own use, she got herself elected by a landslide for four more years...
...Entrance of the BoyardsHalvorsen *Overture to "Semiramide" Rossini *Waltzes, "Where the Citrons Bloom" Strauss *"The Animals' Carnival," Grand Zoological Fantasia Saint-Saens Pianos: J. M. Sanroma - Leo Litwin *Ballet Suite, "Sylvia" Delibes *Kammenei Ostrov Rubinstein *Invitation to the Dance Weber-Berliez *"The Way You Look Tonight" Kern (Symphonic Paraphrase by L. Cailliet) *Sixth Hungarian Dance Brahms *Selections checked (*) are available on records at Briggs & Briggs Music Store, Harvard Square...
...elephants had only been there, many Americans thought, it would have been like a circus parade. Bits of news like these were few in the pages of space given to the Coronation, for correspondents in the position of the Grand Duchess Marie did not want to cable, as the Associated Press did, that a butcher in the East end wrote God Save the King across his shop in sausages. Many persons believe that from the point of view of the United States the press took the affair too seriously. It is true that the New York Times sent Birchall from...
Four events on the program consisted of firing at a pendulum target, out-lining an 'H', puncturing a poised beer can so as to let as much of the liquid as possible escape, and the grand duel tourney. In this event, won by Read, each man shoots at a paper model of his opponent, with the first to pierce his foe's heart declared the winner...