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Though Mr. Dietz gives his recitals entirely from memory, he does upon occasion accommodate impromptu requests, even those of a lighter vein. He is, for instance, entirely in touch with current German works of outstanding value...
...year-old utility hating statesman, Senator George W. Norris-unlike Virginia's 77-year-old Glass and Idaho's 70-year-old Borah-loves to talk privately about retiring from public life. Recently passing through Salt Lake City, Utah, he talked about it, in his usual vein, to local newshawks. Promptly the news was flashed from coast to coast: Senator Norris would not run again in 1936. Franklin Roosevelt, questioned about the news in press conference, genially expanded. Said he: "If I were a citizen of Nebraska, regardless of what party I belonged to, I would not allow...
Wendell Brooks Phillips '15 has been fired from his beloved "Hick College." In the last issue of The Atlantic Monthly, Mr. Phillips describes his dismissal from the "Hick College" to which he had devoted "the most vigorous twenty years of his life." Continuing in his defeatist vein, he still praises Harvard whose liberal thought, inspiration, and thorough education cost...
...ounce of prestige they can in the eyes of British voters, His Majesty's Government were booming along early last week with nearly 500,000 tons of war boats in the Mediterranean and with the Rt. Hon. Winston Churchill making a banquet speech in such elated Rule-Britannia vein that he woke up the next morning to say: "I do not think we should go about striking these attitudes. There might be a terrible cost for these fine gestures...
...play is an absorbing mystery drama with a strong vein of humor. The quiet Boston Post Road home for tourists operated by Emily Madison(Miss Young) is whipped onto a whirlwind of activity by the precipitate arrival of a doctor, a nurse and a girl apparently on the verge of maternity. The doctor takes charge of the household explaining that the girl is a member of a prominent family and that the affair must be carried off with complete secrecy. Things go smoothly until a few days later when the radio becomes alive with reports of an infant-kidnapping...