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Last week 8,000 stolid Scandinavian-Americans converged in cars and busses on the little hilltop college town of Northfield, Minn. Only the first 4,000 jammed their way into the red brick gymnasium of St. Olaf Lutheran College. The rest sprawled on the surrounding lawns. What drew all these people to St. Olaf's gymnasium was a two-day festival of choral music. Delegations of husky Lutheran choristers from all the surrounding States had come to St. Olaf to sing. Together they made a huge chorus of 1,400 voices. When that chorus boomed forth its repertory...
Snow streaked upon the hilltop, feeding...
Coatesvilie's pick-up station, which was set up on the airport, could just as well have been set up in a pasture, on a building roof or a hilltop, where towns without flying fields will have to set theirs. Between two 40-foot poles, 50 feet apart, stretched a rope with a mailbag attached to it. From the sky one of All-American's Stinsons, trailing a four-pronged hook from its belly on a cable, bore down and passed over the rope between the poles. Out of the Stinson tumbled a bag of Coatesville mail. Neatly...
They stage most of their hunts at night, racing hound against hound. From a fireside circle on a hilltop, owners get a vicarious thrill recognizing the voices of their beloved hounds echoing and reechoing, as they cry the fox in the dark distance...
Some 45 years ago in Durham, Me. "Rev." Frank. W. Sandford, a magnetic little man who had been an able baseball player, founded the Holy Ghost and Us Society, built some gilt-domed frame houses on a hilltop which he called "Shiloh." He named himself "Elijah," claimed he had the ear of the Holy Ghost, collected money in abundance from 1,000 followers...