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Died. Daniel Webster Hoan, 80, Socialist mayor of Milwaukee for 24 years of incorruptible efficiency and unprecedented solvency until his defeat in 1940, when the electorate suddenly saw Red, sought an unneeded new broom; of a stroke; in Milwaukee. A dishwasher who later cooked his way through law school, Dan Hoan was a twangy, shotgun orator who restricted his Marxmanship to Labor Day, indulged in class warfare only in 1919, when he declined to play host to King Albert of the Belgians. "I stand for the man who works," proclaimed the mayor of Milwaukee. "To hell with kings...
Thriving on dissatisfaction with public schools, 3R bans every possible "frill"-dances, student government, fund drives, P.T.A., and all athletics except for daily calisthenics. For a tuition of $900 a year, it offers old-fashioned work, using McGuffey and Noah Webster's 1783 Bluebook Speller (last revised in 1906). The only concession to modernity is grouping by ability in each subject, not by grades, so students can whiz through faster. Every 3R kindergartener writes and understands numbers up to 25, and some to 100. They begin reading at 4½. And it's all done without student geniuses...
...Francisco's hungry i last week Sisters Mary and Helen Grandison and Cousin Dottie Webster, hips swaying under plain blue dresses, had every bottle on the bar rattling as they belted out old gospel favorites with poise and trombone clarity. The Grandisons have had little musical training. They left the sawdust trail only this year, after singing in churches all over the South, to try the nightclub circuit. The four write their own arrangements, frequently substitute new words in standard spirituals-e.g. Swing down, sweet chariot/ Stop and let me ride/ Rock me, Lord/ Rock me, Lord/ Rock...
...Committee, which would suggest necessary improvements to the Corporation, visited the area two weeks ago at the request of the Department of Athletics, according to Dean Monro. Involving only two older playing fields, the site in question does not include the new Webster Fields, built with funds from the Program for Harvard College...
...five artists imported last week raised no questions at all. Four of them had painted New Englanders or New England scenes, ranging from George P. A. Healy's glowering portrait of Daniel Webster to a lighthearted Bathing, Marblehead by Maurice Prendergast. There was a Maine scene by Winslow Homer, and the brooding Houses of 'Squam Light, Cape Ann by Realist Edward Hopper. Finally, with the President's home ground taken care of, came a typical Jacqueline touch. In choosing two rare Italian scenes in watercolor by John Singer Sargent-Venice's La Dogana (Customs House...