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...keeping their fingers crossed for rest of the week. Harlow plans one scrimmage, probably on Wednesday, in contrast to the two held last week and none the week before that. MacKinney, Forte, and all the rest of Dr. Thorndike's headaches are in good condition, even including Ray Guild, who has been out with one misfortune after another since the beginning of the year...
...recent years he has been recognized as a distinguished solo performer and acclaimed as one of the finest of present ensemble players. At present he is artistic director and conductor of the Cleveland Opera Theatre, the Canton Civic Opera Association, and the Akron Opera Guild. Recently he achieved national prominence as musical director of the opera department in the Berkshire Music Center, the Summer Festival School operated by the Boston Symphony Orchestra...
...crowds which went to Norristown were one more sign of how the artistic wind is blowing. U.S. designers are busy turning out imitation Pennsylvania Dutch napkins, tablecloths, furniture, dishes. Manhattan's Theater Guild is busy rehearsing a Pennsylvania Dutch play (Papa Is All). U.S. advertising artists are using Pennsylvania Dutch tulip designs as borders for cosmetic ads. Every big Manhattan department store has stocked its shelves to cope with the trend. Most of the Pennsylvania Dutch bric-a-brac now sold commercially might bring blushes to the face of a good Mennonite, Dunkard or Amish. But U.S. housewives have...
...Based on an 87% vote, at week's end, of the Guild's 12,000 paid-up members. Final count, due this week, will almost certainly bury the leftists still deeper...
...Mencken is still a newspaperman. He stopped writing regularly for the Baltimore Sunpapers early this year, but he still covers an occasional story as a reporter. He is also a director of the Sunpapers, and is now conducting the management's negotiations with the Newspaper Guild. Most afternoons Mencken drops in at the Sun office, chats with cronies-President Paul Patterson, Editor-in-Chief John Owens, and a character called "The Bentztown Bard," who gets out a column of Biblical quotations, homely recipes and small-town chitchat...