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However diverse the opening night criticisms of the Boston papers were in some matters, they all agreed that flesh predominated. And this is true of the first few scenes. But shortly after the rip snorting Charleston number, featuring the Hoffman's scrub team --we know it wasn't the 'Varsity, because in New York the left tackle had had her appendix removed--there was a subtle change...
...fell asleep. From the bunk above Seaman Ward's issued the stertorous breathing of a 250-lb. shipmate, also slumbering. Waves lapped and buffeted the collier's hull. Timbers creaked. Into the monotonous orchestration of the forecastle's night sounds crept a small cracking note, a rip, a split, a smothered crash. Ward awoke, in intense pain. His brain flashed: "Shipwreck! Drowning:!" Then a terrible weight lifted as the 250-pound shipmate removed his person and his bunk from Ward's head, chest, stomach, legs. Ward was rushed to a shore hospital "seriously injured...
...Dover, Tenn., four unmasked men shouldered into the county jail, overpowered Sheriff L. L. Ellis, borrowed his keys. Back in the cells, a voice screamed in prayer. It was Herbert ("Rip") Bell, 30-year-old Negro, charged with beating to death one Rufus Joiner, white farmer. The Negro stopped praying as they ferried him and the sheriff across the broad Cumberland river. On the far bank a throng of hillbillies waited, still and serious. Leaving Sheriff Ellis, they all went into the back country, about ten miles. Next day Dover was quiet and Sheriff Ellis went into the back country...
...later, an agricultural life in Canaan. Pious Jews, bound even though they be by modern commerce, memorialize it for seven days, wherever possible, by living in thatched huts, as did their ancestors on pilgrimages to Jerusalem. Deprived of an outdoor areaway, ghetto-crowded Jews have been known to rip holes in their roofs, holes which they covered with corn stalks or twists of grass. On the last day of the feast, Simkhat Torah, the yearly reading of the" Law is completed. Then there is a riot of rejoicing which the Mishnah, Talmudic commentary on Mosaic Laws, reflects in the phrase...
...Chicago councilmen mused over the offer of Investment Dealer Frederick J. Lisman and Lawyer John Maynard Harlan,* who represent much Chicago and Manhattan money, to spend (eventually) $300,000,000 on the reorganization of Chicago transportation: rip out the Loop elevated structures, build subways, refurbish surface lines. Samuel Insull (public utilities) recently made a similar offer. As in his case, the musing councilmen did nothing about the newer offer...