Word: snows
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sadko, produced last week 22 years after its composer's death, is one of 13 Rimsky-Korsakov operas, besides which he wrote many orchestral works and songs. Chronologically it comes between the popular Snow Maiden and Coq d'Or (best-known excerpt: "The Hymn to the Sun"). For many, Rimsky reached in Sadko the height of his musical powers. He himself thought well of it, often pointed with pride to his original use of the bylina, a recitative style borrowed from Russian epics...
...From Stroudsburg, Pa., Dr. George S. Travis, 50, motored late at night through heavy snow to a gunshot-wounded patient. The car stalled a mile from the patient's house. Dr. Travis proceeded afoot. Sleepy, cold, exhausted, he tottered into a snow bed, died...
...From Red River, Hot Springs, Idaho, Dr. P. J. Weber started with dog, sled and snow shoes to a blood-poisoned miner snowbound on a far mountain...
...chattering youngsters were bussing to the Brook Park Elementary School, across the road from Cleveland's Airport. Some peered out of the frosty windows at the light snow on Sheldon Road. Others made last-minute efforts at homework. The bus stopped at a grade crossing on the New York Central R. R. while a passenger train clanked by on the gleaming tracks. Driver and children watched the swaying cars. None thought to look up or down the broad right...
...case of eggs from the wreckage of the plane in which, two and one-half months prior, flyers Carl Ben Eielson and Earl Borland vanished on a flight from Teller, Alaska to the Nanuk with supplies (TIME, Jan. 6). The bodies of Eielson and Borland were not in the snow-drifted plane. The motor had been flung 100 ft. by the crash. The untouched supplies suggested they had not lived to attempt to trudge to shelter. The Nanuk notified all search parties, sent men to dig in the drifts for the bodies, to scour the adjacent coast. Last remaining...