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...Orchestra for four Sunday concerts. His purpose: to introduce contemporary British music to Americans, just as he has introduced it to Australians, New Zealanders, Swedes, Palestinian Jews and British war workers. Pleased to find U.S. familiarity with the works of Sir Edward Elgar (Pomp and Circumstance), he hopes to whet a U.S. appetite for Vaughan Williams, Gustav Hoist, William Walton and John Ireland...
...beginning to look as if someone ought to make up Henry Luce's mind. After a series of articles on the contributions of America's colleges to the war effort, LIFE's feature in last week's issue on what goes on in Indiana University is enough to whet the propaganda pencil of any Axis spokesman. If LIFE's editors are to be listened to, students in our colleges are having a riot of a time making pick-ups in libraries, wearing zoot suits, and playing havoc with the sanity of their professors...
...Crimson batsmen wasted no time in getting to work on the opposition pitcher, Olsen. In the initial frame three runs dented the plate as Vince Leahy, Bill Fitz, Bart Harvey, and Ned Fitzgibbons hit singles that went to all fields. This barrage seemed only to whet their appetites, for there was no let-up in the third as three more runs resulted from Ned Fitzgibbons's home run (welcome proof that his batting eye has returned after an almost disastrous slump), Heath's walk, and successive singles by Gallagher and "Hoss" Hamlen. Four successive blows in the next inning added...
...that they didn't want Negroes living near them. Their, community was too respectable to allow in such undesirables. In other words, it seems to be quite all right to rant against the Nazis' cruelty of forcing Jews into squalid, European ghettos, but it's nothing at all to whet the old knives, arm yourselves with heavy stones, muster an overwhelming majority of supporters, and then forcibly drive hated Negroes back into their equally-bad American slums. Those Detroit citizens, who scorn the Nazi theory of racial superiority, are at the same time hypocritically and vainly picturing themselves as members...
Above all, Pottinger's book is valuable in that it will whet the reader's interest to study further in a field which has been largely neglected by the general public. We have become so interested in reading matter that we have ignored the medium through which it is presented. This tendency must be combatted if modern typographical standards are not to decline. If "Printers and Printing" is widely read by students of literature, it will do much to prevent that decline...