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...years, a Chicago orchestra has held weekly rehearsals, given public concerts. Only its conductor (George Dasch, of Northwestern University) is a professional musician. Its founder was bass-playing George Lytton, president of the Hub stores. Now an orchestra of 115 Chicagoans, 25 of its players are presidents or vice presidents of businesses. A doctor plays the piccolo, a dentist the trombone, a poultry farmer the trumpet, a onetime steel puddler the oboe. A waiting list of 200 eyes the orchestra hungrily : from the list, new players are chosen when members die or cut too many rehearsals...
...margin of wages over living expenses on Northwestern National Life Insurance Co.'s standard of living index has reached a record high. A hypothetical average family which earned and spent $120 a month in 1933 (year the index was started) now earns $157.49 (at the same job) and needs to spend only $130.76 for the same standard of living...
LONDON-Scores of British bombers strongly protected by fighter escorts today blasted Adolf Hitler's invasion based in northwestern France and scored direct hits on the base at St. Omar from which German bombers take off for night attacks on Britain, the Air Ministry said today...
Organized to fight Japan in the Middle Yangtze Valley, Moscow-trained General Yeh Ting's Fourth Route Army had become a formidable force. Meanwhile China's practically autonomous Communist Government had brought pressure on Chiang to allow its crack Eighth Route Army to move from the barren northwestern provinces into the rich Valley of the Yangtze. Fearing that the Fourth Route Army plus the Eighth might be two Trojan Horses in his camp, Chiang ordered General Yeh to march his Army northward out of the Valley. Instead, the Army marched southward. South of the river, it met Chiang...
After dinner the quartet went on to Northwestern College (Lutheran), where nearly all the 150 students and 550 people from the town and countryside sat in the gym, ranged about the basketball court. In evening dress the Pro Arte men wound up a staircase from the dressing rooms, bowed gravely, sat down on a platform under a basketball goal. They played Haydn, Beethoven, Brahms. They were applauded con brio. As the audience filed out, many were heard to praise the Pro Arte Quartet, and to vow that the 50? admission was cheap: the sponsors (the college and Watertown...