Word: halled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bend Over. Friction mounted last November. Students asked for a weekly paper, were told they could put out only one issue, at the end of the term. The paddlings continued and many were administered by Powell himself. Once when there was a disturbance in a study hall, four Negro children were chosen at random to be paddled in Powell's office. "They told us to bend over like when we pray," said one little girl. "I was sore about three days." Later, another child complained: "Mr. Powell whipped me with a paddle one inch thick." Three boys said they...
When the flop-haired little man popped out of the wings and strode briskly to the podium, the sedate English audience in Manchester's green-walled Albert Hall jumped to its feet, cheering like a football crowd. As he bowed time & again, Conductor John Barbirolli's black mane fell over his eyes and he had to push it back. After five minutes of solid ovation, he turned, with tears on his cheeks, to lead Manchester's Hallé Orchestra through the night's concert...
...Over the Dam." When he arrived in Manchester in 1943, war had reduced the once-famed Halle to only 23 players-and a concert hall blitzed into rubble. He combed the town for players, plucked his first trombonist (a woman) from a Salvation Army band. He rehearsed his neophytes twelve hours a day; the first concert (in the local Methodist mission) was a success. That year he gave 230 concerts; the next he endeared himself to the British with a battlefront tour at Christmas, playing while the Battle of the Bulge was raging a few miles away...
...University professors will discuss future American policy in forums tomorrow and Sunday. John K. Fairbank, professor of History, will address the Foreign Policy Association tomorrow afternoon at the Copley Plaza and Kirtley F. Mather, professor of Geology, will speak before the Ford Hall Forum Sunday evening...
College observers yesterday linked the University Hall move to the recent case of two members of the HTW who were suspended for appearing in an under-graduate production while on probation. Faculty protest against their suspension is said to have hastened the renewal of the pre-war probation-warning policy...