Word: partings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Champlain, during the voyage an International News photographer aboard, unobserved, took pictures of Jon and Land Lindbergh (born in England). He took to his office a series of shots worth $5,000 to any big U. S. newspaper. Because the Hearst press had been most criticized for its part in harrying Lindbergh out of the country, the pictures were suppressed. Clients were told they would be released only if Lindbergh okayed them for publication...
...exodus" this year was in part a result of the fact that since many of the permanent appointments in the Department are held by comparatively young men, openings for promotion into the permanent ranks will be few and far between in coming years...
...name meant "Author of Southern Harmony" - a collection of hymns, set to folk tunes, which he published in 1835. Southern Harmony sold 600,000 copies in 25 years, was so popular before the War between the States that even groceries and general stores stocked it. In his arrangements for part-singing, Walker, like other rural teachers of the time, used queer "shape-notes" (square, triangular, diamond, round) which were supposed to make music easier to read. Southern Harmony contained a treatise on the rudiments of music, and such observations on singing as: "All affectation should be banished...
...play this pleasing young Mr. Lincoln, tall, spare Actor Henry Fonda stayed home nights to read up on the part, acted Lincolnesque on the set and off. During the filming he walked on three-inch stilts built into his boots, wore a rubber buildup on his nose and an applied wart on his right cheek. Director John Ford (The Informer) refused to see Fonda without his makeup, refused to let superProducer Darryl F. Zanuck dabble in the job, turned out, as a result, a jim-dandy piece of Lincoln mythology...
...world's finest collections of keyboard music, especially of organ music, has been assembled by Harvard University in a new Isham Memorial Library of Organ Music in the Memorial Church, the University announced today. The Library will be dedicated as part of the ceremonies of Commencement Day, June...