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Miss Beatrice Oliver played the oboe as if she had never heard of the doctors' treatises which warn all oboe-players against congestion in the head. She sounded A. The other players took the pitch. Conductor Brico appeared in a severe black jacket, bobbed her bushy head and the concert was off. The strings played soundly and vigorously through Beethoven's Egmont Overture, his Second Symphony, a Chopin concerto in which Pianist Sigismund Stojowski. once Brico's teacher, soloed academically. Brico conducted with force but not affectation. The strings were rarely delicate but they caught her determination...
...study the biggest and best abortoriums in the world, Mrs. Sanger last August went to Russia. What she saw there caused her pertly to warn Joseph Stalin and other virile Russians: "Abortions make women nervous. It is common knowledge that the practice of abortion, if it becomes a habit, can do considerable harm to woman's sex life. Neuroses may develop and these in turn may result in frigidity. In this country woman is no longer economically dependent on man. If she becomes frigid, she will not be dependent on him in any other way and, in fact, will...
...your information and future protection, I should like to warn you that the correspondent who sent you the item about my search for red flannels (TIME, Jan. 14) has, I feel, been deliberately inaccurate in his account. This is in no way intended as a criticism of TIME nor is it prompted by a desire to secure a correction of the inaccurate statement...
Over northern California spread a general alarm. Highways were blocked, drawbridges raised, a swarm of officers and two U. S. Army pursuit planes put on the trail. After a few miles the convicts tossed out Secretary Noon to warn pursuing police that the boardmen were still in their automobile. Finding a raised drawbridge in their path, they doubled back, sped unharmed through the helpless posse. The police caught up again, burst their quarry's rear tires with a blast of bullets. A slug plowed through Boardman Sykes' thigh, pinked Boardman Stephens...
...with infractions of the rule. Now some Juniors and Seniors are officially, to all practical intents and purposes, allowed to extend their vacations with impunity, while their classmates are threatened with disciplinary action for doing likewise. Certainly, the Administrative Board at its meeting tomorrow should do no more than warn the offenders and use the data to determine its future policy...