Word: pauls
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Arthur Duestrow of killing his wife and child in one of St. Louis' most famed murder cases. He has covered 15 hangings, innumerable murders, never a lynching. Once he heard there were going to be two lynchings in one night, picked the wrong one, never got another chance. Paul Y. Anderson, Marcus Wolf, Herbert Bayard Swope and Theodore Dreiser were all St. Louis cubs when Jock Bellairs was a veteran. In A Book About Myself, Dreiser puzzled over Bellairs' "curious compound of indifference, wisdom, literary and political sense," the whiskey bottle he kept in his pocket "to save...
Moon Love, from the second movement of Tschaikowsky's 5th Symphony (Paul Whiteman; Decca) and Bach Bay Blues (New Friends of Rhythm; Victor). For swing fans who do not object to classical themes and classicists who do not object to hearing them swung...
...best Straussiana-the original sheet music of his waltzes-Vienna did not get. For years a rich Viennese railroad man, Paul Lowenberg, collected scores not only of Johann Strauss but of other 19th-Century waltz-men-Strauss's father Johann, his father's teacher and rival Joseph Lanner, his brothers Joseph and Eduard Strauss. Collector Lowenberg acquired 1,644 pieces of music. His family, on their uppers just after Anschluss, looked for a purchaser for the collection, found one in the U. S. Library of Congress. According to Dr. Karol Liszniewski, Cincinnati musician who arranged the deal...
Seattle owes its new firefly colony mainly to a pretty, 19-year-old Grinnell College girl who lives far away in Washington, D. C. When Mary Ellen Appleby, daughter of Assistant to the Secretary of Agriculture Paul H. Appleby, was a little girl, she was terrified of every kind of insect ("I'd run a mile from a daddy long-legs") except fireflies, which she loved. She began to read up on fireflies, learned a lot of things about them-for example, that what makes them flash is a luminous substance called luciferin secreted in their abdomens, that most...
...Brooklyn, Seaman Paul W. Worshau stretched himself out between the rails in a subway station, went peacefully to sleep while train after train thundered over him. Discovered, roused, examined, he was found strangely uninjured, more strangely, sober...