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...activities of the boys of Italy. It is not likely that the established order in Italy will do honor even in death (if indeed he is lost) to one who gave his life in an effort to destroy that order-yet the spirit of de Bosis will continue to soar even if his body has crashed to earth in the wreckage of Pegasus...
Said Life's open letter: ". . . For a month or two now the toilers of the fairway have been knocking your new ball around. ... They are thwacking it mightily into the toughest gale, watching it hover and dip and rise again, often to soar away like a homing bird into the trees to some unplayable nest. They are putting it diligently into the cup, diligently and boldly-boy, she's in!-oop-a curl and a flip and out pops Big Boy for another try. ... It was a disappointment in May; it will be hated in June...
Brown, who failed in three trials only by a narrow margin to better his own newly-established record, is a nephew of R. A. Gardner, Eli bamboo expert who was first to soar successfully at 13 ft. Crimson spectators commented with regret that the new interscholastic champion is intending to join the already powerful Blue vaulting squad "Brown has a good sturdy build," Mikkola commented "though he doesn't hold himself as straight as Sutermeister. It's too early to may whether he will ever go on to break would records: he may reach 14 ft. and then stop...
Instead of being confined on Madison Avenue I could soar in a jiffy to Second or Third...
...throated quality peculiar to Russians and so well suited to music in the minor mood. There are basses which seem to come from the bowels of the earth. (Cossack Tierekov, said to have the lowest voice on record, recently had his throat photographed in Berlin.) There are falsettos which soar high into the soprano realm. (Audiences often suspect Cossack Ovtchinikov of being a woman.) The Cossacks hum their own accompaniments and strum them. Conductor Jaroff's control of his men is intense, superb, exercised by a clutched hand and fierce jerks of his little head. Musical cranks at last...