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...Baroque organ at the Germanic Museum is Volume 111 of J. S. Bach's Little Organ Book, to my mind the least interesting of the month's releases. The precludes in the volume, written for Christmas and the New year, are dry and colorless, the kind of hack work every composer turns out at some time or other, which had much better be forgotten. Nor does Biggs's jumbled, unclear performance add anything to the music. A different story are the Bach Chorales sung in German by the Trapp Family Choir, also on Victor Records. The Trapps' unaffected singing...
...exercise. He had not yet helped the Republican Party solve the problem of who would be its national chairman for the next four years. Whether he would try to keep Representative Joe Martin in the job or let the post pass to the hands of some willing party hack was a question still in suspense. Columnist David Lawrence, in his United States News, seized the moment to make a wholly unorthodox suggestion...
Hershey, party hack and former State's attorney...
...Robert A. "Battlin' Bob" Townsend '43 and J. Eldon "Hack" Sawhill '43, Harvard's revamped varsity field hockey team will seek to avenge its recent 1 to 0 defeat by Wheaton as it clashes with the Winsor School tomorrow in Belmont...
...Monday night even the blindest party hack could see what had happened. For the first time since 1932 Franklin Roosevelt was in absolute command of the party he, had raised from a 15,000,000-vote low (1928) to a 27,000,000-vote top (1936). The purge that had failed in 1938 was being carried through in 1940. Two years ago Franklin Roosevelt had at last begun to carry out a pledge made to his intimates in 1932: to force the Democratic Party to become the liberal party...