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...high water, they were touring Belgium right under Hitler's nose. Britain's ENSA (roughly the British equivalent of the U.S.O.) considered the tour quite a triumph. It was the first time a British symphony orchestra had visited liberated Europe, and it was also probably the most strenuous trip in the peaceable annals of symphonic music...
Donald Marr Nelson, U.S. special envoy to China, was back in Washington after a strenuous month's trip around the globe. The ears of the ex-WPBoss still rang with Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek's encomium: "If it [the Nelson mission] had happened as much as one year ago, I believe the present situation would be far better." To Franklin Roosevelt, Don Nelson brought a heartening report. With the Generalissimo's full cooperation, the Nelson mission had launched at Chungking a Chinese...
Laid in 1912, the play (unlike the book) introduces its hero in middle age, when the mold has hardened and the mold has begun to collect. To tradition-reflexed George Apley, Boston is Western Civilization, Emerson the Bible, Mount Auburn cemetery the carriage entrance to Heaven, and the strenuous life a round of bird walks, committee meetings and the best clubs. Sex, Apley gathers from a reading of Freud, "very largely governs the lives of the people ... in other parts of the country." Even in Boston, to Apley's dismay, its lure involves his son and daughter, as once...
Commenting on basketball and the part it has played in the wartime conditioning program, Stahl says, "No game we play is more strenuous than basketball. No game requires more coordination or better reactions than basketball. For these reasons the game has had a prominent part in the conditioning of our various combat forces...
With a week of strenuous distance work under their belts, Jaako Mikkola's runners will be ready for MIT tomorrow afternoon, when the two teams line up outside Newell Boat House to start the 3.7 mile dual meet which will conclude cross country competition for the season...