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...people were not feeling any too well when King Frank and Queen Octavia opened the civic celebration with their triumphal landing at Jefferson Davis Park. Unofficially, the "South's greatest party" had started night before. A host of otherwise solid citizens had dressed up in their dinner jackets and had taken their wives, sweethearts and daughters to a prize fight at Ellis Auditorium between somebody called Eddie Wolfe and a pug named Harry Dublinsky. To lend tone to the affair, Jack Dempsey was picking his nose in the ring and acting as referee. After Mr. Dublinsky and Mr. Wolfe...
...supplying this trade found the free port of Hamburg convenient; during one famous week in 1932 there cleared from Hamburg two ships loaded with dynamite, grenades, and airplane parts; another with 1,000 cases of explosives, another with 1,700 cases of ammunition, and still another, brining up a triumphal rear, with 100,000,000 francs' worth of French machine guns...
...good and evil is the sympathetic atmosphere which surrounds the "boy who made good." The crowd which has long clamored for the return and quick imprisonment of its runaway utilities magnate, has failed to re-elect the State's attorney who brought him back. There was certainly no triumphal return, with Samuel Insull dragging behind a chariot, nor was there an angry crowd at the station or the jail. The general notion is that Mr. Insull is a poor, infirm old fugitive whom the law is making into a scapegoat. Pity wells up all over the Windy City...
Friday Evening, May 11 *Triumphal March from "Aida"Verdi *Overture to "A Midsummer Night's Dream" Mendelssonn *"Madame Butterfly," Fantasia Puccini *Nocturne: "Festivals" Debussy *Overture to "Rieuzi" Wagner Chorus and Orchestra: The Snow Elgar Carnaval Fourdrain *"The Fortune Teller," Selection Herbert "People of Vienna" Ziehrer *First Hungarian Dance Brahras Selections checked (*) are available on records at Briggs & Briggs Music Store, Harvard Square...
...Montreal. Onetime teacher, realtor, insurance man, he commanded a volunteer regiment when War came, took an infantry brigade to France. He rose rapidly, won fame at the second battle of Ypres where his men faced poison gas for the first time, became Commander-in-chief in 1917. After his triumphal return, there were whispers that he sacrificed his men in a vainglorious desire to have the Canadians fire the last shot on Armistice Day. When a newspaper printed the story he sued, obtained a $500 libel verdict...