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After numerous delays, the 56-year-old bell in the Memorial Church tower will again be tolling away the hours starting Sunday, November 6.
The setting is an imagined "sleepy provincial capital" on the South American shores of the Caribbean, where on one Pentecost Sunday Dr. Juvenal Urbino, 81, falls to his death while trying to retrieve a pet parrot from a mango tree. This calamity sets church bells tolling and mourners swarming to...
Repeated prosecutions alone will not put the organization out of its deadly business. Veteran observers of the Mob recall the prediction of the imminent demise of the Chicago Outfit in 1943 when its seven highest hoods were convicted of shaking down Hollywood movie producers. The bell of doom seemed to...
Commencement is essentially a time for age-old traditions, and one of the best examples is the tolling of the Memorial Church bells at the start of the exercises.
Since the automatic bell-ringing system cannot switch tempo to produce the joyful peals and mournful tolling required during Commencement week, a specially-trained campanologist must take over for the machines.