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...mighty 200. Soprano Elsa Alsen and Baritone John Charles Thomas sang. Pianist Josef Hofmann left his inventing* long enough to solo in Rubinstein's D Minor Concerto. But it was not the excellent concert which did most to restore the Auditorium's oldtime pride, nor its own spick & span appearance, nor the announcement of the newly organized Chicago Friends of Music which will undertake to build an outdoor amphitheatre on the lake front for the 1933 World's Fair. More important, the old patrons were back-old Mrs. William Chalmers and Mrs. Joseph G. Coleman, the Ryersons...
...time since his speech of acceptance in August, Herbert Hoover stepped briefly outside his role of President of the U. S. last week to become a Republican nominee actively seeking reelection. In Washington with Mrs. Hoover and his usual retinue he boarded a Pennsylvania R. R. special train, all spick & span with new paint. It looked like rain. Two raincoats were put aboard his private car for rear platform appearances. Ahead of the special ran a pilot locomotive over rails carefully inspected a few hours before, over switches spiked down hard. In his car Candidate Hoover touched up his first...
...spick & span riding habits George R. Hutchinson and his flying family arrived back in Manhattan last week, ready to cash in on their incompleted seaplane flight to Europe. Amazed at the lashing he had received from the Press for taking along his two young daughters, Pilot Hutchinson argued: "I did not subject my family to any more hazards than if they were traveling in an automobile. . . . The people who are criticizing me now are the same ones who boast of their ancestors who came over on the Mayflower, bringing their children with them. Don't you suppose that...
...Index of Departments . . . on the Back Page of the Cover," the uninitiated is led to expect Prussian organization, Dutch neatness on its pages. But the booklet, like many others things of New England, is deceptive in its simplicity; it may be likened to a New Hampshire barn, prim, spick and span to the eye, but filled with a maze, a jungle, of mingled odds and ends, in which the stranger can find what he wants only by explorative rummaging...
...spick & span readiness for her maiden voyage from Manhattan this week was the 5. S. Manhattan, biggest (705 ft., 24.000 tons), fastest (22.7 knots) liner ever built in the U. S.* Fortnight ago on its two trial cruises, the Manhattan met every test successfully, was unofficially scored "100% plus." Soot from the two squat, rakish funnels had smudged many a celebrity on the trial run but it was a simple matter for 100 workmen to raise the short stacks 15 feet...