Word: monumental
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Next in the series of Tuesday night Harvard broadcasts over the station will be a lecture on "The Noblest Monument of English Prose" by John L. Lowes '05, professor of English...
...permanent monument to swing" is RCA Victor's phrase for its latest jazz album, A Symposium of Swing. Its four twelve-inch discs contain selections by four swing bands: Benny Goodman, Tommy Dorsey, "Fats" Waller, Bunny Berigan. Familiar to fans who have listened to the four in their native haunts, on the air or on records, the selections are characteristic but, to experts, not the top choices. Best disc: Benny Goodman's Sing, Sing, Sing, a free fantasia in swing, based on the tune Christopher Columbus, with Drummer Gene Krupa battering out an expert tympanic melody...
James Haughton Woods '87 lives on in Japan. For, in a Japanese cemetery near Lake Biwa, stands a simple monument into which has been set a casket with a few of the belongings of this Professor of Philosophy (1913-1933) who died in Japan...
Erected by his Japanese friends, the monument to Professor Woods bears the following inscription...
Last week Most Rev. Edward Mooney, new Archbishop of Detroit, cracked down on his most famed priest, Rev. Charles Edward Coughlin, as had been predicted he might (TIME. June 14). To reporters Father Coughlin had said that Justice Black's appointment was a monument to President Roosevelt's "personal stupidity." had further opined that Catholicism and the C.I.O. are incompatible. Last week in his official Michigan Catholic, Archbishop Mooney expressed his regret for Father Coughlin's language, took issue with him on his reasoning. Two days later Father Coughlin announced that he was canceling his contract...