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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Boston, according to a recent statement by Conductor Sergei Koussevitzky, "is the most esthetic and intellectual city in the U. S." Koussevitzky, according to the Bostonians who pack his concerts and pay him what he asks, is king of conductors. Hence last week in mutual admiration began the fifth season of the Koussevitzky administration, the forty-ninth since the symphony's founding by the late Major Henry Lee Higginson. New music played: a noisy and optimistic Prelude and Fugue, written by Riccardo Pick-Mangiagalli, a Bohemian-born Italian...
...living with his widow, Katherine Parr, even after the latter had married Sir Thomas Seymour. Katherine and Seymour tickled Elizabeth awake in the mornings, but the wife finally grew jealous and ousted her. Katherine died in childbirth. Seymour was executed, charged with proposing marriage to Princess Elizabeth without young King Edward's consent. Finding herself under suspicion, the 15-year-old Princess craftily sought to prove herself not pregnant by offering to go "to the court . . . that I may show myself there as I am." Intrigues threw her in jail whence she bombarded Queen Mary Tudor with letters demanding...
...snobbish about her suitors." With one favorite, the brown-skinned Leicester, she was intimate in public but denied that she made similar concessions in private. Ben Jonson opined that she was "incapable of man" and Brantome, always physiologically acute, offered a theory ex- plaining that theory. Elizabeth rejected King Philip of Spain but smiled on France's Alencon, her "Frog-Prince." She did not, however, make any marital history. Sad and jealous when her rival Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots, bore a son, she saw to it that Mary was beheaded. Elizabeth wisely liked her pirates, Slaver Hawkins...
Jubilant, dashing Doug King was the life and death of a Hallowe'en party on an old Southern manor. He hid in the dark for fun and was murdered. Various of the 13 glamorous guests had ample motive for the crime. King had injured practically all of them, with his piratical lust for women and money. Authoress Hart, who wrote The Bellamy Trial, famed smash hit, has inlaid her mystery with a filigree of wit and romance, confined the action to one night, eliminated detectives. The result is incredibly novel, exciting...
...summary: EXETER HARVARD 1933 Seton, g. g., Fitch Ringsley, Gomez, r.f.b. l.f.b., Waters Condict, Bernuth, l.f.b. r.f.b., Vandermark Brooks, r.h.b. l.h.b., Martin Robinson, c.h.b. c.h.b., Gallaway, Grossman Thompson, l.h.b. r.h.b., Denison Gilbert, r.o.f. l.o.f., Williams, Ossorio Weaver, Harrison, r.i.f. k.l.f., Eaton Hixon, c.f. c.f., Lindsey, Heard King, Hausserman, l.i.f. r.i.f., Schumacher Sugimura, l.o.f. r.o.f., Hasbrouck...