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...Undersecretary of State. While he was speeding across the prairie in a Pullman, his good friend President Hoover had promoted him to the No. 1 sub-Cabinet post, vacant since the death of Joseph Potter Cotton (TIME, March 23). Never before had a career diplomat climbed within one rung of the top of his professional ladder...
...request of the donor, Mr. C.R. Crane, the first official ringing of the Lowell House bells, which have been heard off and on for the past few weeks. It is expected that some relative may represent Mr. Crane, who is at present abroad. The bells are to be rung all day, with slight intervals of respite...
...plays on cords attached to the four smallest instruments, and at the same time uses his left to man-oeuvre by means of wires all the other bells except the three largest. The 15-ton monster is operated by two men, while the next two in size are also rung by the Russian, using a foot pedal...
...must have been mistaken. Evening chimes have not been unknown to us and so we pardonably believed we knew of the slow and gracious beauty of bells rung for the beauty of their ringing. Our experience, we find, was limited. We are now to hear bells we have never heard before, and their din of Slavic tunes from a staid Georgian tower is to set at nought our thought of chimes to delight or console. Yes, we were mistaken, doubtless. (Name withheld by request...
...Lowell House bells differ from ordinary carillons in that they do not conform to any modern musical scale. Tuned to unaccepted pitches, they cannot, strictly speaking, be called a carillon. Experts describe them as "a group of bells". When such chimes are rung, the deep bass bell is kept constantly pealing while the ringer manipulates levers and pulls ropes to ring the remaining bells. This is the work of Adrianoff, of Astoria, Long Island, an American citizen living in this country for 20 years, who will take up his abode in Cambridge...