Word: pipers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bandsmen are reportedly guarding their big base drum in an unspecified hideout, anticipating a possible Terrier assault, and bagpiper Leigh Cross '51 was practising assiduously as rumors of a B. U. piper filtered in to the Paine Music Building last night...
...adjective "delicious." He is all-out for modern art. During the war, Rothenstein packed most of the Tate's treasures off to rural hiding places, then busied himself with the acquisition of over 600 new works, including some by British Modernists Graham Sutherland, Henry Moore, John Piper. The gallery was bombed (only six of its 34 rooms are usable now), but attendance has climbed to more than double prewar. Rothenstein realizes that much of what he buys will soon be outdated. His main problem is what to do with yesterday's "moderns." He doesn't want...
...Jersey's Teterboro Air Terminal, just six miles across the Hudson River from Grant's Tomb, there was a lot of hustle-bustle last week. Lanky young pilots, many in their old Army flying jackets, darted about the coveys of DC-3 freighters and the smaller Piper Cubs, Cessnas and Beechcrafts scattered around the field. Steamrollers were snorting away, lengthening the landing strips to 4,500 feet. In a corner of the field, handlers coaxed a horse into a freight plane. Regularly, every minute or so, a plane took off or landed...
Vindictive. In Toronto, Conductor Sir Ernest MacMillan rummaged through some old scores, found that rats had chewed up one: The Pied Piper of Hamelin...
Although many a planemaker (including Piper, Cessna, Republic) denied it, the stockmarket decline and the slump in the luxury market had cut sales. Those who did admit it usually put the blame chiefly on lack of sufficient airports to take light planes out of the luxury class...