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...levee theme, developed fully in "Ol' Man River" when the Negro chorus comes on stage, sweating under bales of cotton, is the kernel around which Show Boat's music grew. Composer Kern wrote the song for Negro Paul Robeson. Then around it he wove his melodic fabric to fit the libretto which Oscar Hammerstein II craftily extracted from Edna Ferber's novel. Paul Robeson was to have sung in the original U. S. production but it was delayed. Contracts called him to London. He sang in the London show, had his great success. He was in last...
...known how to get itself accepted . . . The true justification of a statute, he has somewhere written, lies 'in some help which the law brings toward reaching a social end which the governing power of the community has made up its mind that it wants." This statement is the kernel of Holmes" philosophy. It has kept him looking forward instead of backward at the lessons of history, and has made him the great liberal of the bench and the champion of social experiment...
...Upperville, Va., Reverend Everett Hinks was annoyed by neighbors' chickens eating the flowers in his garden. Chicken-owning neighbors of Mr. Hinks denied their fowl had committed the depredations. Mr. Hinks, ingenious, got many pieces of string, tied one end of each to a kernel of corn and the other end to a placard, left them in his flower garden. One day his astonished neighbors heard their chickens crowing lustily, found hanging from their beaks placards bearing the legend: "I Have Been in Reverend Hinks' Flower Garden...
...druggist displays a mixing bowl as a sign of his, so up in Franconia Notch God has hung out a sign to show that in New Hampshire he makes men." In the cool of many mornings after the sophistry of this remark becomes all too plain, but the kernel of truth that inspired it still remains. The Vagabond has just been up in the "lofty state" and will vouch for the truth. Most unfortunately he was called away suddenly to tutor a man in History 28 for an examination today, or he would have prolonged his stay indefinitely--until Quebec...
...Coffey & Humber, who work for the Southern Pacific Co. in San Francisco, last year cautiously announced that they were alleviating hopeless cases of cancer by means of adrenal cortex extract derived from sheep. The Hearst press recognized the kernel of news in this announcement and puffed it so that thousands of cancer victims abandoned the orthodox treatment of surgery, X-rays and radium, rushed for the sure-cure...