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There are exceptions. Some stations merely hired "disk-jockeys" to ride herd on swing records, in the traditional milkman's matinee style. WJZ, New York, evolved a six-hour, all-musical program in which every word except the news flashes is sung. A chorus, jam band and harpsichord render the station breaks in such senseless jingles as this...
...team fielding statistics, Cornell has pulled itself up from next to last so that it now leads of the herd with a .944 average and only eight errors. Dartmouth, having played one more game, has .933 and 11 miscues. In fifth with .928 is the Varsity...
During Biologist Huxley's absence, practical biology in London's Zoo has carried on. Five white male goats were born to the Royal herd. The bear cages are crowded with the addition of seven brown cubs. Five baby Bactrian camels of Russian descent are expected to arrive sometime next month...
...trouble with most of our current speech-making on war aims has been its lack of any really new idea. Over and over again we have heard the same old phrases about the virtues of democracy and the ultimate "victory of the herd of free men." But a lot of this talk has seemed pretty inadequate in view of the last twenty years of democratic world rule...
...Then, at a parley, they learned they were facing British border troops from Kashmir. All the Kazaks wanted, they told the Kashmir officials, was a place to graze, land where they could live. To reach their final camp the Kazaks had a last ordeal-to lead their camels and herd their sheep over the 11,300-foot Zoji-la Pass. When the great caravan pitched its tattered tents at Muzaffarabad, only 3,500 Kazaks were left...