Word: ille
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...prospering prairie town of St. Charles, Ill. (pop. 7,700), 35 miles west of Chicago, Leading Citizen E. J. (for Edward John) Baker last week handed out three sizable checks. To the town's E. J. Baker Working Fund went a no-strings-attached $100,000, bringing the total that parchment-fragile Colonel Baker, 90, has given the town so far this year to $300,000. To the St. Charles school district went $75.000. Father Walter Ryan accepted a $25.000 check for St. Patrick's parochial school, gasped: "Is it real? Never do that again...
McCurdy termed Jim Schlaeppi's race against Yale "a superlative emotional effort," and could only hope that his injured foot holds up today. Jed Fitzgerald has been ill with the grippe and his performance is uncertain also...
Last year, lights were erected at both ends of the bridge to prevent just such attacks. But there are no locks on the switchboxes, and ill-tempered thugs have discovered that when the switch is turned, the lights go off. Under cover of darkness, respectable Harvard citizens are divested of their slim, black pocket secretaries...
Less purely fundamental work has found itself subjected to similar ill-treatment. The composer deBreville wrote of his colleague Chausson: "He had no reason to fear or avoid vulgarity for he knew not what it was." And then the legions of Hollywood score composers came along and bled Franck, Chausson and company for all they were worth. It takes a pure mind not to find traces of "movie-music" in Chausson. But Chausson is not responsible for what happened; nor are the worshippers of the African jungles or of Oceania responsible for what became of their religious expression...
Died. Sid Simpson, 64, Republican Congressman from Illinois, who was running for re-election this year; of a heart attack; in Pittsfield, Ill...