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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...smoky amber, the Lalique styles from severe to elaborate, the Lalique sculpture from playful to precise. In many an onlooker's mind was the Rond-Point on Paris' Champs-Elysées, where Lalique fountains, illuminated in pre-blackout evenings, sent showers of crystal drops curving high...
...changed in spirit," told his proudest news: that last year 213 of the school's 700-odd boys had scholarships, that the captains of seven Andover teams are working their way through. Said he: "When you alumni come upon a brilliant boy in a small town high school, tell him what we have to offer. We want more candidates for our scholarships. . . . This is a great democratic school...
...beagle is a short-legged hound, 13 to 15 inches high. Smallest member of the hound family, it has the same characteristics as the foxhound: keen scent, melodious voice (higher-pitched than the foxhound's), a fierce determination to make that tackle. Although many U. S. hunters use beagles to track rabbits, the sport of beagling-in olden days "the poor man's foxhunt"-has remained a Tory pastime ever since the first beagle pack was imported from England...
...passing from Broadway to Hollywood, On Your Toes has suffered a see change. Even Slaughter on Tenth Avenue, a high point of the original version, has no more bang than the pop-pistol percussion with which the orchestra burlesques its pantomime killings. Alan Hale, Frank McHugh, Leonid Kinskey fling flat gags around with as much nervous energy as if they were hand grenades, but they never go off. Typical duds: "We are waiting for Levsky"; "Aha! mutiny on the ballet...
...Washington-some 200 miles away from NBC-RCA's Empire State Building transmitter, W2XBS, which has a normal "eyeline" range of 50 miles. Over Washington the ship started to climb. At 21,600 feet, with the passengers sucking oxygen and the windows curtained with frost, it nosed high enough over the earth's curvature so that it was on a theoretical eyeline with W2XBS. Suddenly on the mirror-screen of the receiver appeared the image of Herluf Provensen, NBC announcer. He introduced RCA President David Sarnoff, United Air Lines President William Allan Patterson. As they chatted, a photographer...