Word: hills
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Between two great symphonies--Beethoven's Second and Sibelius' Fifth--is sandwiched a new violin concerto by Hill in this week's Friday Afternoon-Saturday Evening series at Symphony Hall. It should be a well-balanced and interesting program...
This week the Duke of Gloucester breaks sod on a hill outside Kampala, capital of Buganda, principal kingdom of Uganda, for the stone buildings of Makerere College for Higher Education, first all-Negro university in East Africa. Recommended by a Royal Commission on Higher Education, the university will speak English, will teach the arts, science, agriculture, medicine, education, veterinary science and engineering to bright young blacks of Uganda, Kenya, Tanganyika and Zanzibar...
...extreme northeast corner of Kentucky, on the south bank of the Ohio, lies Greenup County-a stretch of shaggy, greenbriered hill country, twelve miles wide and 20 miles long. Among the hill people of Greenup-great hunters, fighters, Baptists and Democrats from way back- young Jesse Stuart grew up. He lived at the head of W-Hollow, fished in Little Sandy, began to write poetry before he was out of school. "Them Stuart youngins is plum fools." said Neighbor John Hackless. "If them was youngins of mine, I'd whip their tails with a hickory...
...Jesse kept on writing. Amazingly prolific, ingenuous, enthusiastic, he broke on the U. S. literary scene as an authentic voice from the hills, turned out a book of 703 sonnets in eleven months, wrote a book of extraordinary stories about the hill people, an autobiography. He taught school in Greenup (pop. 1,125), became county school superintendent at $100 a month, went to Europe last year on a Guggenheim Fellowship, returned to teach school, sell stories to Collier's, Esquire, and write editorials for a Greenup County paper...
...interview was conducted during a ten minute walk from the Hotel Brad ford where he had just made a recording of a speech in the studios of Station WBZ, along Tremont Street to the foot of the State House hill. Accompanying Saltonstall was Danny Lynch, his campaign manager...