Word: occasional
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When a Hindu wants attention, he beats on a gong. To drive away evil luck, he blows a bleating blast on a sankha, an instrument shaped like a big ocarina. Last week, in Manhattan's tiny Carnegie Chamber Music Hall, there was both gong-beating and sankha-blowing. The...
Anne Morgan, busy, greying sister of J. P., held a reunion in Manhattan with cronies Anne O'Hare McCormick (New York Times correspondent) and Playwright Rachel Crothers. Occasion: a testimonial dinner celebrating Miss Morgan's 30-year effort to better the lot of business and professional women.
It has long been known that the brand "Harvard man" was likely to occasion a sneer in various vague and distant quarters, something like "Princeton man," but not many have known that it was this bad. The local boys have tried hard enough to please. They have even done their...
This year, not only will the participants, ski, run, and fall down the Sherburne Trail on Mount Washington Sunday, but they will also follow up the occasion with a giant slalom run by two-men teams tied together with a 40-foot rope.
Great and wonderful sounds could be heard in Boston this past week from a couple of out-of-the-way places not generally frequented by Harvard men. One, of course, was the Keith Boston, which swerved out of its second-rate vaudeville groove long enough to present Duke Ellington and...