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Died. Maude Howe Elliott, 93, last survivor of the four daughters of Julia Ward Howe (Battle Hymn of the Republic), civic leader and chronicler of Newport, R.I.; in Newport. Existing in a climate of literary and artistic success all her life, she gained recognition herself by writing the minor sagas of the people and places she knew well (My Cousin, F. Marion Crawford; This Was My Newport), won the 1917 Pulitzer Prize (with Sister Laura E. Richards) for Julia Ward Howe, a two-volume biography of her mother...
Biggest event of the nine-day meeting was the Bible College's graduation ceremony. Four truckloads of flowers were delivered to the women graduates. When it came time for the hymn-sing, a brass band arrived, diplomas were handed out, and 123 new Foursquare ministers went forth to labor in the vineyard...
...India radio broadcast Gandhi's favorites: extracts from the Gita, the Upanishads and the Koran; the Lord's Prayer; the Christian hymn, When I Survey the Wondrous Cross. Then, after midnight, Gandhi's youngest son Devadas (who insisted that Gandhi be cremated, as he had wished) helped wash the body. He and Gandhi's secretary Pyarelal then wrapped the body in pure white khadi. They put a yellow paste of sandalwood and water on his face...
...Hymn to Soup. For months the record companies had stockpiled master platters like an Army cook turning out buckwheat cakes (TIME, Nov. 24). For a long while to come there would be enough new records around to choke any disc jockey. Estimates ran as high as three years for popular tunes. And almost all the great classical compositions are already filed away on master discs...
...wrapped bread in a bakery and did some preaching on the side. When Fred Waring filmed Varsity Show on the Pomona campus, Shaw's glee club got a bit part-and Shaw got a job tuning up lush arrangements of Moonlight on the Campus and Battle Hymn of the Republic for Waring in New York. On the side, he trained a glee club for Broadway's Billy Rose, set the swimmers' strokes to music at Billy's World's Fair Aquacade. He also took on the choir at Manhattan's Marble Collegiate Church...