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...mite boxes children dropped one penny for each year of their age. In New York City's Bronx, 150 moppets (aged five to 16) in the Colored Orphan Asylum raised $3.50 by giving up their Sunday dinner ration of ice cream, though the sacrifice made crusaders quiver (see cut). Said President Roosevelt reassuringly: "Every child in America ought to feel vividly the suffering and loneliness experienced by the children who are victims of a racial and religious intolerance...
Handel could incarnate his own unflagging vitality, his breadth of feeling wide as the open skies, his elemental strength, into the singers themselves, making them sing in sweeping comprehensive melodies and in intense close lines that make counterpoint quiver with life. Yet he had a perfect understanding of the capabilities and incapabilities of the singers, and never wrote beyond their capacities, so that the music never is unnatural or strained, as Beethoven so often is. Mozart, on the other hand, lacks Handel's great strength, though his delicate melodic line cannot be challenged...
...Potter will shortly have another arrow in his quiver-a report soon to be released by the impartial SEC on Mr. Young's proposed simplification of the Alleghany empire. SEC records show that this plan, formulated by a group preponderantly interested in the common stock of Alleghany, would benefit the common stock at the expense of other Alleghany and Chesapeake securities, notably the Series A Alleghany preferred. The owners of the 667,539 shares of this issue (among them Donaldson Brown and Mr. & Mrs. Young) were asked to surrender the right to accumulated dividends of $33 per share...
...read: ". . . performances such as one he heard of Mozart's Eine Kleine Nachtmusik. . . . 'Here now the orchestra is well into it; here is that sforzando where the flutes blew out a gasket last Saturday night-they have taken it at 45 miles an hour without a quiver...
...arch-Republican Herald Tribune, which hired him not as an editor but as an independent columnist whose opinions the publisher disavowed, it was as much of a shock to Herald Tribune readers as to Lippmann's friends. Before long, however, the Herald Tribune'?, bosom ceased to quiver from the shock of taking in this potential viper and started to preen itself on owning the prize exhibit in the journalistic zoo. Lippmann's popularity as a daily elucidator of world-events soon grew nationwide, and his column was last week being syndicated in 160 U. S. and Canadian...