Word: ripon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Boys. When a special bus bumped into Ripon, Wis. one afternoon last week, 20 world-famous little boys got out of it. Though they had traveled 300 wet, slippery miles from South Bend, Ind., the Wiener Sängerknaben (Singing Boys of Vienna) were erect and lively as they marched into their hotel. There they stripped to the waist, scrubbed their faces, brushed their teeth, composed themselves for a short nap. That night they made the little college town gasp at their sweet voices and expert phrasing. Students, teachers and farmers from 100 miles around listened reverently to da Vittoria...
Though they had sung nothing but ecclesiastical music for more than four centuries, their programs took a more secular turn. In Ripon the boys prefaced their church songs with the Star Spangled Banner, sung with the same scrupulous care they would put into a mass. They clowned superbly in a special number based on Strauss's Blue Danube, neatly and beautifully acted a closing scene from Hansel & Gretel...
Clark W. Freeman '37, of Cambridge; Sidney Gleason, II ocC, of Newton; Benjamin H. Hallowell '36, of Chestnut Hill; Charles P. Haseltino '36, of Ripon, Wisconsin; Andrew Hutchinson '36, of West Newton; Andrew A. Kasper 4E.S., of Watertown; James T. Kilbreth, Jr. '36, of Hewlitt, Long Island; Harry Marvin-Smith '37, of Rye, New York; George A. Matteson, Jr. '36, of San Antonio, Texas...
...London's biggest department store, landed in Manhattan. Of the Roosevelt Administration, he said: "When businessmen find an experiment does not work, they drop it immediately." Few days later he arrived by airplane at Oshkosh. Amid a wild honking of horns he motored to his birthplace at small Ripon, Wis., had a park named for him, received an L.H.D. from Ripon College. That night, at a banquet during the course of which an overtaxed lighting system thrice broke down, white-thatched Dr. Selfridge delighted Riponese by his vocabulary of U. S. slang...
...West last week Escudero danced in Cleveland, Ripon, Wis., Milwaukee. He will give 55 performances, working his way back East for Christmas, then South and into Mexico...