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...board of directors; 3) Dr. Townsend's attorney, Sheridan Downey, EPIC candidate for Lieutenant Governor of California in 1934, had weaned the gentle oldster away from his partner in order to further his own ambitions for California's governorship; 4) Dr. Townsend's clique, fearful lest the Congressional investigation disclose some shady Townsend financing, had ousted Secretary Clements in order to have a convenient scapegoat; 5) Dr. Townsend wanted a Townsend third party, while Secretary Clements did not; 6) Secretary Clements wanted a Townsend third party, while Dr. Townsend...
Occasionally Yehudi's playing showed faint signs of fatigue, of a transitional stage in his musical development. But the Menuhin parents still hold first place as the wisest of prodigy guides. On tour they kept the family together for all of the 17 months, refused invitations lest the children should be influenced by hearing too much praise. Next week they will move to their ranch in California, remain in retirement for two years while Yehudi has time to rest, study, develop into manhood. If Mother Menuhin has her way, Hephzibah will never have an intensive public career...
...days before last week's performance the prima donna from Jellico, Tenn. kept to her suite in the Hotel Sherry-Netherland, refusing to speak lest she tire her voice. On the stage she exhibited more grace and confidence than she did at her debut in 1928. Otherwise her progress was unnoticeable. Her voice, at best, is naturally ingratiating. But it is still technically insecure, often feeble and rasping when she strives for top notes, empty and meaningless when she tries to sing...
Robert Wadlow's giantism is due to dysfunction of the small, chestnut-like pituitary gland, which lies under the front part of the brain. Among the many results which follow pituitary disorder is muscular weakness. Vast Robert Wadlow must move slowly and deliberately, lest he drop things or stumble. At Shurtleff College, where he is a freshman, he ranks well above the average. His best subject is German. When he graduates he expects to become a lawyer...
...long, my mind being full of strange fantasies of knights and loves and quarrels and wounds, and yet I know not why, lest it be this fellow Quixote who works my imagination exceedingly. Lord, how real it all is! Soon I up to dress myself but find, it seems, only rusty old arms to wear--and these have been piled in the Tower for many years--but I to trim them and put them on but find a helmet is wanting; so I to use a morion and with certain papers paste together a beaver for it, but alas, quite...