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Fortnight ago these epic headlines blared forth from the front page of the London Sunday Referee, lurid weekly beloved by Britain's masses. Billed as a "Sunday Referee Special," the startling story related how "a peasant woman, forty-two years of age, sits in Triboure, a lonely little village on a spur of the Pyrenees. Her foot rocks a cradle in which lie-SIX FULL-SIZED NORMAL BABIES. SHE GAVE BIRTH TO THEM IN ONE DAY SEVEN MONTHS AGO." The reason this amazing news had been so long reaching the world, explained the Referee, was that "there...
...known biography (The Life of Samuel Johnson). Like all literary men Boswell left behind him quantities of manuscript and unpublished writing. Boswell's descendants were gentry, and did not propose to add any more fuel to their ancestor's reputation, already to their minds a little too lurid. From one respectable generation to another Boswell's manuscripts mouldered, first in Auchinleck Castle, then in Malahide Castle, Ireland, whither Lord Talbot de Malahide, Boswell's great-great-grandson and heir, transported them...
...background of the lurid light cast by the festive campfires of the triumphant bonuseers lurk menancing shadows. The immediate and pressing question is how to finance the two and one-half billion dollar payment. It has occured to some few souls that the money must be raised by taxation, either deferred or immediate, but such persons are not to be found in Congress or the lobbying headquarters of the American Legion. Even the reputed magician in charge of the Treasury has openly expressed skepticism as to the means and probable facility of raising the money...
...orchestra of Bach's Fantasia and Fugue in G minor for organ. The former was composed near the turn of the century and was intended to accompany the ballet of the same name. It is generally regarded as Schmitt's best known orchestral work and by incorporating the lurid scenario into the music gives both brilliance and dramatic atmosphere. Unlike many modern orchestrations, it does not attempt realistic methods (as, for example, did the Rivier overture in the program for last week...
...story concerned University of California's Ernest Orlando Lawrence, No. 1 U. S. experimenter in artificial radioactivity, whose 85-ton electromagnet frequently makes scientific news. Solemn young Dr. Lawrence would be horrified to find himself associated with the "death-rays"' of lurid pseudoscience. Actually he was only protecting himself and hi's co-workers from the effects of a beam of 10,000,000 neutrons a second generated with the help of his electromagnet for use in straightforward atomic experiments...