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Prokofieff: Program of Piano Music (Played by the composer; Victor: 8 sides). A sheaf of miniatures by the trickiest of today's composers...
...weekend. To its gusts he could throw the heavy cares of the Presidency, to its rollers the carking complications of politics. Behind for a while lay the names of Barkley, Thomas, Adams, McCarran, McAdoo. Ahead lay marlin, sailfish, tuna, albacore, and the wild wahoo. His secretaries put away a sheaf of delivered speeches. His fishing aides aboard the cruiser Houston unpacked a trunkful of rods, reels and tackle. Instead of shining paragraphs for the electorate, now there would be shining spoons, dancing feathers for big fish. While Harry Hopkins administered work relief to the unemployed at home, the very much...
With them goes a roomful of battered furnishings which have made theirs the gayest or the most peaceful room in the whole college; a sheaf of notes--the ones from that certain course which really made them feel they knew something about something, which they couldn't quite bring themselves to throw out after the last exam, and which now represent the sole tangible total of a thousand lectures and a thousand hours in the libraries--their college education in final essence. And the name of Harvard, that which they can never lose now, graven on a sheet of parchment...
Founded by the well-known Lieder-singer and Schubert authority, white-haired, pipe-smoking Reinhold von Warlich, London's new Schubert Society has met with extraordinary support from England's musical and social bigwigs. Patrons include two princesses, a sheaf of baronesses & countesses, illustrious scientists and world-renowned musicians. But the most interesting name on its letterheads is that of its president, Carola Geisler-Schubert, lifelong friend of Liedersinger von Warlich and granddaughter of Schubert's brother Ferdinand...
...convention last week, attended by more than 1,000 delegates representing some 500,000 organized workers mainly in the mining, steel, aluminum, flat glass, textile, rubber and electrical industries, C. I. O. stalwarts appropriated Typographer Phillips as their president, supplemented their noisy endorsement of Miner Kennedy with a sheaf of resolutions militant enough to give the jitters to Miner Green...