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...folk lore of the Waban hills means anything, Richard L. Gardner 2GB will be striding up the center aisle pretty soon...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Waban Hoops Doom Busy Schooler to Early Wedlock | 5/3/1948 | See Source »

...Conspirator will see, Slater does not share Koestler's determination to explore the more subtle and profound characteristics of the revolutionary man. Himself a former leftist enthusiast (he was the International Brigade's chief of operations in the Spanish war), Slater is content to dramatize his lore with such ability that few readers will be able to put down Conspirator before they have reached the last gasp...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Serpent in Uniform | 4/19/1948 | See Source »

...prison, Blanco poured out verse. His jailers gave him no paper because they knew the power of his pen; he scratched his verses on prison walls, memorized what he had written. His poems were carried outside the walls to become part of the people's lore...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: VENEZUELA: People's Poet | 3/8/1948 | See Source »

Written in 1917, "Les Noces" depicts Russian folk lore with a nationalist and unorthodex flavor. It is "sensational" music according to conductor Irving G. Fine '37, professor of Music, for the dissonant sounds produced by the preponderance of percussion make a "clamoring, gong-like music...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Stravinsky's Clamorous 'Les Noces' Features May Music Club Concert | 2/21/1948 | See Source »

Died. Lincoln Ross Colcord, 64, spinner of sea tales, authority on nautical lore; of coronary thrombosis; in Belfast, Me. Colcord created a long-remembered sensation in 1929 when he publicly debunked-Joan Lowell's best-selling "autobiographical" sea story, Cradle of the Deep, as so much romantic fiction, caused the Book-of-the-Month Club to offer refunds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Nov. 24, 1947 | 11/24/1947 | See Source »

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