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After listening to the Philharmonic, elegant Mr. Thomson headed his review Age Without Honor. He shrugged at its Beethoven, compared its Elgar with "that massively frivolous patchwork in pastel shades of which one sees such quantities in any intellectual British suburban dwelling." Calling Sibelius "vulgar, self-indulgent and provincial," he...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Schellenbaum & Bombshell | 10/21/1940 | See Source »

At Greenwich, Conn., U. S. schoolboys fought it out for the 29th Eastern Interscholastic Golf Championship. The show they put on over the soggy Greenwich Country Club links augured well for future intercollegiate tournaments. In the qualifying rounds, stocky, easygoing, Charles Davis of Lawrenceville took the medal with a creditable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Youths at Games | 7/8/1940 | See Source »

Because of rain and soggy ground the lacrosse team did not meet New Hampshire in their tit scheduled to be played Saturday. The game is to be played either Wednesday or Friday, depending on the weather.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: New Hampshire Stick Contest is Postponed | 5/6/1940 | See Source »

Chicago sweltered under the blazing July sun. No people and no breeze stirred in the streets of the Windy City. The people had fled from hot pavements to the beach, the woods, and the suburbs. But in a huge auditorium, which looked and smelled like the local stock yards, milled...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 3/5/1940 | See Source »

They hated their war rations-soggy bread compounded of coconut meat and milk, maize, lablab (wild beans), arrowroot, flower petals; coffee from roasted coconut shreds; dried grass instead of tobacco-and their clothes were getting ragged. They were in dire need of wheat flour, sugar, lard, potatoes, matches and all...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PITCAIRN ISLAND: Relief | 1/1/1940 | See Source »

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