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Fisk's beginning, soon after the Civil War, was in a Federal hospital barracks in Nashville, Tenn. Thither, at the invitation of General Clinton Fisk, trooped Negroes of all ages, to get their schooling. They didn't get much until the school's treasurer, George White (white), formed a chorus, named it the Jubilee Singers, took them on a barnstorming tour of the North. Mr. White sent back $40,000 to buy a campus. The Singers went abroad, sang before Queen Victoria, who requested Steal Away to Jesus. That tour netted $200,000, which bought Jubilee Hall...
Busiest spot in Aspen last week was the barbershop of the Jerome Hotel. Thither small boys carried trays of beer, as spectators watched with telescopes through the wide windows Aspen's first running of the national downhill and slalom championships. On Saturday they saw stocky, Austrian-born Toni Matt, of North Conway, N. H., whoosh out of the steep pitch of the "Dipsy Doodle" into the Big Corkscrew to finish first in 2 min. 22.6 sec.-an average of better than 44 m.p.h. Second place in the slalom next day made him U. S. combined champion. Said National...
Thirteen centuries ago Mohammed gave a spiritual and material boost to his native Mecca by calling upon his followers to make a pilgrimage thither at least once in their lifetimes. Pious Moslems have been making the Haj ever since, thus gaining the privilege of: 1) being called Haji (pilgrim), 2) wearing green turbans, 3) dyeing their beards red with pounded hennaleaves...
...speed ahead on the All-American economic cartel, the biggest, most urgent "must" on the Administration's schedule. In Washington, the plan was put at the top of the agenda for a Pan-American Conference at Havana, scheduled for June 26. The State Department, acting at "total speed," thither invited the representatives of the 20 Latin American nations. All 20 with total speed promptly accepted (though Chile, Mexico, Paraguay, Uruguay, Peru and Argentina demurred at U. S. haste, asked a postponement until after mid-July...
...high explosives, etc.), oleomargarine, soap, lubricants. England has stored some 80,000 tons of it for war purposes. Partly because the Antarctic is its chief source, Germany, Norway and Argentina recently laid claim to vast segments of that frozen continent, and the U. S. is to send Admiral Byrd thither next October to establish U. S. claims...