Word: les
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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John Gelvin, Gene Keith, Red Navin, Jack Penson, Les Pitchford, and Ed Rothschild give the squad a wealth of height which was lacking last year. Ed Buckley, John Flint, Mike Rice, John Righy, and Joe Romano are some of the other men who have faced the Varsity in the past few days...
Arturo Toscanini (Sat. 10 p. m. NBC-Blue) conducts the NBC Symphony in Ludwig van Beethoven's Coriolanus overture, Franz Schubert's Second Symphony, César Franck's Les Eolides, Giacomo Meyerbeer's Dinorah overture...
...Georges Bonnet as they came & went from the Hotel de Noailles across the street, for Marseille was playing host to the Radical Socialist Party Congress (see col. 3). It was in session when fire inexplicably burst forth in the women's dressmaking department on the second floor of Les Nouvelles Galeries. Into swift action went the bearded personnel manager. With smoke and flames spurting from Les Nouvelles Galeries and the whole second floor blazing, rotund Louis Frichet rushed panting up the stair case to the roof, carrying an armful of blankets...
Exactly 40 minutes after the fire started Les Nouvelles Galeries collapsed, its walls bursting outward and setting fire to the Hotel de Noailles across the street. Into the hotel rooms of the absent Premier and Foreign Minister rushed firemen who had just time to gather up their papers, later taken to a police station for safe keeping...
Meanwhile, red-hot embers of Les Nouvelles Galeries settled down on the fuel storage tanks in the basement. Suddenly these exploded with a blast heard for miles, set fire to other hotels and buildings on famed La Cannebiere. This is the street of which all Marseille has boasted for generations on postcards sold to tourists: "Ah, if Paris only had a Cannebiere it would be a 'Little Marseille...