Word: walhalla
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Dress Rite. In Walhalla, S.C., 37 members of the Rider Mountain Pentecostal Fire Baptized Holiness Church went to court asking for the reinstatement of their pastor, the Rev. Haskell Lee, who had been unfrocked for wearing a necktie in the pulpit...
...Shotgun Blast. In Walhalla, S.C., another jury listened to an even darker story. It was told by 14-year-old John Henry Davis, a frightened Negro boy. He was in the living room of "Uncle Mike" Rice's farmhouse on the night of November 12 when two white men rapped on the front door. Uncle Mike answered and he heard a voice asking what time it was. Before Rice could reply, a shotgun blast ripped into his leg, another tore him across the belly...
Bouquet. In Walhalla, S.C., Etta Jackson won a suspended sentence after explaining to the court that the twelve half-gallon jugs of bootleg whisky dug up in her garden were placed there only to make the flowers grow better...
...infantrymen from the 253rd Infantry, 63rd Division, who comprise the G.I. version of the old favorite, have done 50 performances to date before some 56,000 troops. The show has appeared in Heidelberg at the world-famed Stadt Theater, in Mannheim at the onetime luxurious UFA Palast, at the Walhalla Theater in Wiesbaden and the Liberty and Montgomery Theaters in Kassel...
...orchestrated to an accompaniment that will not drown them out. But Wagner had no use for such lightweights: the true Heldentenor must be able to out-boom a phalanx of trombones. Richard Wagner's heroes are strenuous fellows, who would willingly break a blood vessel to get to Walhalla, and Wagner saw to it that their tones should ring with desperate effort. Prince of Heldentenors is Lauritz Melchior. His triple-brass larynx (which earns him the same top Metropolitan pay that Flagstad gets: $1,000 a performance) can stand the wear & tear of Siegfried's "Forge Song...