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...with three Oak Leaf Clusters. More than 50 men of the 19th have won the D.S.C., including the late Captain John L. DuFrane. who flew missions seven straight days before he was killed in the Celebes. The 19th's own candidate for the Medal of Honor is Captain Harl Pease of Plymouth, N.H. During the height of the Solomons battle, Captain Pease insisted on taking off with his squadron from a New Guinea field, though he had had only three hours' rest from his previous mission. Despite an attack by 30 Japanese Zeros, several of which he shot...
...played nothing but U. S. music. His three programs contained Stephen Foster, Vic tor Herbert. Gershwin, Ferde Grofé, and some surprising items: band arrangements of a movement from Howard Hanson's Nordic Symphony, Jabberwocky from Deems Taylor's Through the Looking Glass suite, a rumba from Harl McDonald's Second Symphony...
Mozart: Requiem Mass, K. 626 (University of Pennsylvania Choral Society with the Philadelphia Orchestra, Harl McDonald conducting; Victor: 12 sides). In 1791, as 35-year-old Mozart neared death in Vienna, a mysterious stranger offered him 50 ducats ($112.50) to write a Requiem. The stranger was an agent of one Count Franz von Walsegg, who wanted to pass the composition off as his own. Ill, impoverished Mozart accepted the commission, asked no questions, wrote his Requiem as if for himself. Death took him before the end; his pupils finished the manuscript. His last work, it is also...
...dime. It was not a world in which dimes were common. On the barren slope above Blackjack Mine, Bracky Baldridge owned a garden patch, a shack with puncheon floors, a black birch tree. When the mines along the creek closed one March, Bracky's no-good cousins, Harl and Tibb Logan, came to live with the Baldridges. The dried beans ran out fast. Then soft, lazy Uncle Samp came and stayed, his thin grey mustache so long he wrapped the ends around his ears. "Even if they are your blood kin, we can't feed them much longer...
...Harl and Tibb had a secret joke; the family liked to get away from them and sit together in the smokehouse. "A big house draws kinfolks like a horse draws nitflies," said Mother. One rainy night Harl and Tibb had a long spell of snickering in the room where they slept with Uncle Samp. Next morning they left :arly. When Uncle Samp woke up, he roared and raged out of the house: what was left of his mustache stuck out "like two small grey horns." When he was gone, Mother got the children to move the beds, stove and furniture...