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...bright rain. Eighteen miles away, a tornado struck the mile-square shantytown of Albertynsville, where 5,000 Negroes and half-castes lived in mud huts. For an instant, the growling air was filled with flying tin roofs; then the pelting rains crumbled Albertynsville's mud huts into a slough of grey ooze that flowed like lava, choked with sticks of furniture, rusty pots & pans, and here & there a corpse. The toll was: 20 killed, 400 injured, 4,000 homeless...
...singularly doubtful point), this resembles regulating teeth-brushing and other personal trivia regulating teeth-brushing and other personal trivia which the University usually and properly ignores. Why is it the Administrative Board's business whether undergraduates can or do allocate their time properly, how well they battle temptation to slough off their studies, or whether roommates impede each other? Surely, as in any other matter of personal friction and decision, students are quite competent to make their own choices, seek then own relief...
There was a period a few years back when Lily slid into a vocal slough and had more than usual trouble with pitch, but she is back in good stride now. After one more summer concert (she has already sung in Manhattan's Lewisohn Stadium and Philadelphia's Robin Hood Dell), Lily will take a vacation in France with her husband, Conductor Andre Kostelanetz. Then she returns to the U.S. to sing with the San Francisco and Metropolitan Operas, make records (she has sold over 2,000,000 in the past ten years), sing on the radio...
...some antiquated form of transportation, and when he gets to Harvard at last he just cannot enjoy the full benefits of its educational facilities. For many years University Hall, after having looked into the problem from all but the most fantastic angles, has been sunk in a great slough of apathy so far as the commuter is concerned...
...these times of paucity of respect for the past, let us not tamper with the grassy slopes that extend out toward the crass commercialism of Slough . . . If the first Duke of Wellington did not say this in so many words, then one of his post-cedents should have. HARRY HESS New York City...