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Next .day, he went to church with his mother and President and Mrs. Coolidge, placed a wreath on the tomb of the Unknown Soldier at Arlington, visited disabled War veterans at the Walter Reed hospital, made plans for flying to New York early the following morning...
...cheer at the intermission after the third movement, but he bade them wait, with a gesture, until the tender parable of mortality should be rounded with the exalted parable of resurrection-"Blessed - are the dead which die in the Lord." They waited, meditated, applauded thoughtfully, gave Conductor Furtwangler a wreath and went home full of peace instead of excitement. Perhaps they would see him again in a year; perhaps he would be called somewhere else...
...TALE OF GENJI-Lady Murasaki- Houghton, Mifflin ($3) was reviewed in TIME, Aug. 3, 1925. Sequels are called The Sacred Tree and The Wreath of Cloud...
...orchestrated, that Conductor van Hoogstraten led last week. It was the first composition by a native of Portland that the symphony orchestra had performed, and Conductor van Hoogstraten took quick advantage of the situation. When the first clatter of applause quieted itself there were brought to the platform two wreaths, "evidently denoting genius, and certainly denoting musicianship and adeptness," wrote the Portland Oregonian's music reporter. Conductor van Hoogstraten, grinning, put one wreath about the shoulders of Composer Mowrey. Composer Mowrey sought to drape the other on Conductor van Hoogstraten's shoulders. But Conductor van Hoogstraten ducked...
...floral wreath could better have announced the death than the message which Mr. Coolidge gave to the citizens of this country on New Year's Day. A request to the press that adverse opinion should not be openly expressed, lest observers from other nations should form the erroneous opinion that sentiment was at times divided on major issues in our national politics, would have been a succulent morsel to the political bear-baiters of yesteryear. But they are dead, and in this day and age a pronunciamento from the White House Spokesman becomes imbued with that same mystic sanctity which...