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...variance with the lyric distributed aboard the Charlie White, Tammany definitely did not turn out to greet prodigal Mr. Walker. "Fighting Al" Smith had other business. Onetime Official Greeter Grover Whalen, a decorative member of the old Walker entourage, and little Alfred Cleveland Blumenthal, Walker's Broadway companion, discreetly left town before his ship reached Quarantine. But the Master Brewers' Association, grateful for Walker's fantastic Beer Parade of 1932. was at the dock 2,000 strong. The Grand Street Boys and other sodalities with nothing to lose by consorting with the ex-Mayor had hired...
...include Auld Lang Syne and the famed Irish Londonderry Air for hymns beginning It singeth low in every heart and Above the hills of time the Cross is gleaming. The broad, soaring principal theme of Jan Sibelius' tone poem Finlandia has been reharmonized, paired with a 16th Century lyric...
...City Four (a teacher, a cashier, a clerk, a statistician) from Brooklyn. These young singers slicked their hair over their foreheads, put on high collars, white trousers, "dink" caps, and orange-&-black blazers, rolled gaily into Central Park on two tandem bicycles. They sang Ben Jonson's lyric Drink to Me Only with Thine Eyes. Then they swung through There's a Tavern in the Town which was handsomely embellished with "swipes"?passages in which the first tenor holds the melody while the lower voices move in opposite directions in the scale. For their performance, appearance and deportment...
Elegant in phrase, lyric in tone and innocent of harsh technicalities, a broad review of modern trends in his own field is what the British Association for the Advancement of Science has come to expect of its president, at its annual get-together for exchange of news and views. This year's president, William Whitehead Watts, 75, emeritus professor of Geology at London's Imperial College, did not disappoint B. A. A. S. when it convened last week in Norwich. Professor Watts talked about Earth. "The Earth." said he, "is 'a lady of a certain...
...commodity which is transmitted from State to State. Burkan's persistent retort has been that music is "intangible and incorporeal." Lawyer Thomas Day Thacher. U. S. Solicitor General under Herbert Hoover, entered the trial to argue that ASCAP existed only to protect the rights of composers and lyric writers, pooh-poohed the idea that the organization was potent enough to dominate an industry which includes such interests as American Telephone & Telegraph Co., General Electric, Westinghouse, Radio Corporation of America...