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...will be spent "working in undisturbed peace." His Eighth Symphony, for which the world has been waiting twelve years, is drawing towards completion. So perhaps is his life's work. As a level-headed countryman, he knows that, having passed three score and ten, none of his remaining vigor need be spared for fripperies. At 72, important tasks still remain to be accomplished...
Early this week, though steel production dwindled to 52.1%, U. S. Steel perversely led the market back up the ladder, $6.13 up to close at $58.63. Rails were full of vigor, but Chrysler was the most spectacular stock of all, jumping $9.50 to $69.75. Highlight of the 2,000,000-share trading was a 51-minute "reverse air-pocket" during which a would-be buyer of 5,000 shares of Chrysler could find no offering...
...rest of the show was the smell of tanbark, a display of gay bandanas, a pounding of hoofs, a whooping of cowhands and a continuous schedule of feats of skill and vigor. Among them: an exhibition of trick-roping by 44-year-old Chester Brers who learned some of his stunts from Will Rogers and has been No. 1 U. S. trick-roper so long (20 years) that no competitors were entered against him last week; cowboys trying to throw light Mexican steers, to ride huge, humped, 1,250-lb. Brahma steers,* to rope and hold wild cows long enough...
...should now simply decide not to play pirate any more in view of the forces arrayed, the big fact then is that Non-Intervention was scuttled last week, and thus the seas around Spain are open for either Rightists or Leftists to import unlimited munitions and men, redouble the vigor of Spain's civil...
...vigor with which it has entered the life of the city around it, Toledo's Museum has no equal. Last year 67,000 people attended lectures at Manhattan's famed Metropolitan Museum of Art. The attendance at the Toledo Museum's lectures was 90,000. The number of visitors to the Museum last year was 350,996, including children. This figure is about 101% of Toledo's population. According to Art Annual the next best showing of any art museum in the country was made by the Joslyn Memorial Museum in Omaha, Neb., with 49%. Director...