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This autumn Princetonians will miss J. Duncan Spaeth's genial boasting about the talents of his halfbrother, "Tune Detective" Sigmund Spaeth, the professional abilities of his wife. Painter Marie Haughton Spaeth, the age of his Princeton house, built during the French & Indian Wars. Oarsmen will miss his stout figure perched in the bow of a motorboat, whizzing up & down Lake Carnegie at crew practice...
...TIME TO DANCE-C. Day Lewis- Random House ($1.75). A stout attempt to explain that the new poetry movement in England is not Communistic but individualistically Socialist, with some poems by Author Day Lewis as examples...
Carefully Hangman Hanna adjusted the arm straps, tightened around Killer Barrett's neck the stout $65 rope which he had used in 18 other hangings. Over Barrett's head he slipped a black satin hood, the handiwork of his sister-in-law. Then he walked calmly down the steps, confident that his 69th job would be without flaw. A deputy sheriff sprang the trap. Ten minutes later George W. Barrett was dead. At daybreak he was buried in Indianapolis' Holy Cross Cemetery...
...plank of Publisher Robert Rutherford McCormick's Chicago Tribune Program for America is: "Restore Constitutional Government to Rhode Island." To Democrats in this tiniest of States the plank is decidedly distasteful. For many years they have unsuccessfully bucked: 1) the Rhode Island constitution; 2) the stout-muscled Republican machine of wealthy textile mill-owners. By the constitution, Providence, with nearly half the State's 687,000 citizens, can elect only four of its 42 Senators. 25 of its 100 House members. Other cities have representation far below their relative voting strength. The rural communities, stoutly Republican, have kept...
Nine years ago in Vienna a stocky young tenor with wonderful teeth arched his stout chest into the high notes of a Korngold opera, The Miracle Of Heliane. Since then Jan Kiepura has risen to fame in European screen operettas...