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...with alcohol, fastened leather guards over his hands, sat down at the keyboard and started pummeling its projecting levers, stamping on its pedals. Above him in the belfry, 23 tuned bells chimed out a program of folk tunes, hymns, a classical number or two. The annual congress of the Guild of Carillonneurs of North America was in town, and Host Carillonneur Jordan was playing them a welcoming recital...
...guild is an elite little (60 members) group that looks down its nose at mere "chimes" (fewer than 23 bells) and prefers a carillon with a large number of bells because it is easier to play. The organization has nothing to do with the old English game of change-ringing,* measures a carillon's "niceness" by its weight. Mariemont's instrument is "nice": its largest bell weighs 4,760 lbs., its smallest...
...Screen Guild Theater (Sun. 9 p.m., CBS). Family Honeymoon, with Barbara Stanwyck, Jeff Chandler...
...which Chorister James L. Harkless led in its singing to the tune of "Fair Harvard." Sandwiched between these literary notes was a plea for money by President of the Alumni Association William M. Rand '09, and a welcome to the ranks of the Ten Thousand Men by Henry R. Guild, head of the Harvard Club of Boston, and representing the Associated Harvard Clubs...
...Theatre Guild on the Air (Sun. 8 p.m., NBC). Remember the Day, with Helen Hayes, MacDonald Carey...