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...comedy is in the fact that his ouster will make not the slightest difference in sex morals statistics of the school from which he was fired, or of any school in the country. I've a notion that most college deans would agree with me that the average youngster goes to college with his moral pattern pretty well decided...
...Again bare-kneed, and sailorcollared, Heimo Haitto tucked a Guarnerius fiddle under his beardless chin, made his bigtime U. S. debut with Ormandy and the orchestra in the plushy Academy of Music. Critics liked his easy, self-assured playing, could well believe that Sibelius had said of him: "This youngster will carry on the tradition of Finnish music...
...German Fascist Party Secretary Achille Starace and Minister of Popular Culture (Propaganda) Oboardo Dino Alfieri. These dismissals had the effect of raising the prestige of Il Duce's son-in-law, Foreign Minister Count Galeazzo Ciano, who loathed Ribbentrop and Hitler for treating him like a naive youngster in politics, and who won an immense popular following by backing the policy of peace...
...line the streets. The Imperial Household totted up the cost, found it would be cheaper to build a new schoolhouse next to the Palace grounds. They did-complete with twelve classrooms, auditorium, laboratories, music hall, handicraft room, gymnasium, library, offices, private dining and sitting rooms for the august youngster. This week for the first time, the son of the son of the Sun, with shining morn ing face, romped across the Palace grounds, across one public street, to school. On rainy days he will ride-in a red lacquered, charcoal-burning car. After six years, a special educational institution will...
...unusually terrible children who have an unusual faculty for aping their elders. Few ever graduate from the ape stage. Few ever hold the concert platform after their apishness has outgrown its disarming garb of knee britches and Dutch cuts. But once or twice in a generation appears a youngster who does his own musical thinking, can hold his own in the company of talented grownups. Such a precocity usually causes a sensation, even among hard-boiled critics...