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...motorists on U. S. 1, Byberry is just a cluster of red and white colonial-style buildings, not at all bad-looking, in a peaceful rural setting on the outskirts of Philadelphia. Philadelphians know the place better; some of them refer to the State Hospital for mental diseases at Byberry as the "House of Horrors." In the last ten years Philadelphia newspapers have sporadically aired reports of noisome doings in this enormous institution, one of the largest...
Informed that Nazis have picked Vienna to supplant Paris as world's fashion centre, New York's style-minded Mayor Fiorello H. ("Little Flower") LaGuardia grinned: "I think that indicates that they expect to control everything, if they win. I would refer that matter to Senator Wheeler...
Perhaps John O'Hara (Appointment in Samarra) could polish off the script. But though characters in O'Hara novels sometimes refer to each other as "Fitzgerald characters," O'Hara is more a Hemingway derivative, belongs less among the sad young men than with U. S. Literature's dead-end kids : James M. Cain ( The Postman Always Rings Twice), Horace McCoy (They Shoot Horses, Don't They?), pseudonymous Richard Hallas (real name Eric Knight...
...presume you refer specifically to the title...
...only did he dispense with the score on the platform: at rehearsals he could refer his men to a numbered section of the score, sight unseen. Says he, simply: "I learn the music." Last week rumors flew that the Phil harmonic might offer Conductor Mitro poulos a permanent job. To get him, the orchestra management would have to buy off Barbirolli, whose contract at a comparatively modest salary has two years to run. Minneapolis, which turns out the biggest weekly symphonic audience in the U. S. - as many as 5,000 people in enormous Northrop Auditorium - pays Mitro poulos...