Word: leaders
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...expect to increase the size of the University Band this fall until it is again the largest in the East," asserted H. L. Holland 1L, leader of the Harvard corps in an interview with a CRIMSON reporter yesterday...
...Instead of string and wind instruments, the Javanese produce their music with a complex system of gongs, bells and celestas, achieving a cohesion of rhythm beyond the hopes of an occidental orchestra." Different gamalongs, said Stokowski in an awed whisper, played long, complicated programs in different courtyards without leaders and without mistakes. "I tried," said the leader of the Philadelphia Symphony, "to arrange with a Javanese prince to send his entire orchestra of several hundred to Philadelphia . . . they are splendidly barbaric...
...little more than a year ago, an Irish political leader, Kevin O'Higgins, walked on a street in Dublin. It was Sunday and he was going to church. An automobile sped down the avenue. Some men who had been loitering on the sidewalk suddenly became active. Thus was Kevin O'Higgins assassinated...
Died. Rabbi Leon Harrison, 62, of Temple Israel, St. Louis, Mo., famed leader of American Jewry, who, at the age of 21, delivered an oration at the funeral services of Henry Ward Beecher; by falling before a subway train; in Manhattan. Rabbi Harrison's vertigo and poor eyesight may have caused his fall, originally designated as suicide...
...Times' story which followed was written by Professor William Herbert Hobbs, leader of the University of Michigan Greenland Expedition. It told how Bert Hassell and Parker Cramer, pilots of the monoplane Greater Rockford (which had set out on Aug. 16 on a flight from Rockford, Ill., to Stockholm, Sweden) had been driven off their course by a storm, and with gasoline running low had made a safe landing in Greenland's frozen wilderness. They lived for two weeks on eight ounces of pemmican a day. When found, both Hassell and Cramer were in good health, able...