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Following a beery, cheery get-together, the Crimson will officially open its shortest competition of the year tonight at 7:30 o'clock. All would-be editors who did not come around to 14 Plympton Street yesterday are urged to sign up tonight...
...descriptions of farm work masterful records of the quiet talk that runs over it. More ambitious is a poetic essay on graves, generations and the mountain heritage. Toward the end of the volume Hillbilly Stuart breaks into plain English and writes a story of two snakes which is the shortest, best piece in the collection...
Complaining that except for $2,000 doled out to him since his marriage last summer he has been limited to just $100 a month in living expenses since 1930, blind. British-born Radio Pianist Alec Templeton (Bach Goes to Town, The Shortest Wagnerian Opera} sued his parents for an accounting of his $200,000 earnings, and to restrain them from using any power of attorney he may have signed "without knowing what the paper...
...company is anxious further to explore shorter waves than have ever been used before. These shortest of waves (technically microwaves) would be of vast assistance in handling mechanized armies. With the almost limitless frequencies afforded by microwaves, an enemy would have a fierce time jamming instructions to army and navy units...
...book's shortest chapters, and its only bitter one, is a bullfight. The band blasts Cheek to Cheek; the stunted bull comes out, soils himself and trembles when at length he comes to "sense the purpose of his presence"; tries to escape, is tortured into the open ring and dealt loathsome, blundering wounds. Finished off with a dagger, he kneels gently like a child in prayer and his head sinks to earth. The band plays Cheek to Cheek and another little bull trots...