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With only a quarter as many as This Is the Army's cast of 300, The Army Show provides no breath-taking spectacle of massed men in uniform, no rafter-shaking choruses. Nor has it an Irving Berlin to give it tunes like I Left My Heart at the Stage Door Canteen or This Is the Army, Mr. Jones. But it has the CWACS (Canadian Women's Army Corps) to lend it lure. And it has a twofold function: besides playing Canada's cities to swell the Troops Welfare Fund, it will tour Canada's army...
Systematic study of rings, so that old wood can be dated by its growth patterns, was begun in 1904 by Astronomer Andrew Ellicott Douglass of the University of Arizona, who was interested in solar activity. Douglass became able to look at a pine ladder or rafter from a prehistoric Indian pueblo, date it exactly as far back as 11 A.D. Sequoia wood from the High Sierra can now be dated back to 1305 B.C. Since the weather, and therefore tree growth, varies from place to place, master tree-ring charts must be worked out for different districts...
Afternoons Witnesses hustled back to Convention Hall, where they had set up everything from a cafeteria to a hospital, sat on hard chairs in 117° heat and were harangued by their rafter-rattling leader, "Judge" Joseph Frederick Rutherford. Twenty lesser gatherings of Witnesses, from Boston and Honolulu, to Seattle and El Paso, heard Rutherford over loudspeakers and leased telephone wires...
...retorted pretty Joan Todd, Radcliffe '41, her blue eyes flashing, "I didn't learn to do it on my dates with Harvard men!" She was referring to the rafter-rattling shriek which climaxes her main scene in the Student Union production of Irwin Shaw's "Bury the Dead," scheduled for Sanders Theatre tonight and tomorrow...
...symphony orchestras employ unemployed musicians. But they seldom draw crowds or move their listeners to rafter-raising applause. An exception to this rule is Chicago's WPA orchestra, the Illinois Symphony. When it was first organized in 1935 the Illinois Symphony was one of the Federal Music Project's ugly ducklings. For a year it bettelhtooped almost unnoticed. In the summer of 1936, the Music Project's pompous national director, Nikolai Sokoloff, went to Chicago to rehearse it for a concert under his own baton. When he heard it play he was afraid to be seen...