Word: ypsilantis
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Keyholer Walter Winchell, claiming a "scoopee (we hope)," gave the rumor currency by a second-hand report that 34-year-old Frank Handy, son of the publisher of the Ypsilanti (Mich.) Press, "has the engagement ring in his pocket now, waiting for [Margaret's] uh-huh." Washington society began to envision a White House wedding;* some even speculated about its political usefulness...
After preliminary tests on some 200 inmates of the Ypsilanti (Mich.) State Hospital, a massive test was given last autumn to 12,500 people in eight U.S. areas. Half were vaccinated with small injections of virus inactivated by chemical treatment. Half were "vaccinated" with some phony material. During the recent flu epidemic, out of every five persons in the test who got flu only one had been vaccinated. Only variation from this average was California where, Dr. Francis says, "a number of factors" may have thrown the figures...
...maker of the finest U.S. harpsichords was back last week in Ypsilanti, Mich., full of happy memories. Wiry, black-haired John Chain's had vastly enjoyed a holiday season of harpsichordery in Manhattan. But he was anxious to get to work...
Bakelite and Boar Bristles. John Challis makes his harpsichords in a two-floor studio above an Ypsilanti dress shop. Two assistants, who have been with him for years, help him fit together the intricate combination of carved hardwoods, leather plectra, metal strings and frames, ivory keys and Siberian boar-bristle springs out of which a fine harpsichord is concocted. A slow, painstaking craftsman, Challis turns out only about eight harpsichords a year, at prices ranging from $400 to $2,700. So far, wartime shortages of materials have not affected his output...
John Challis, who is a first-rate harpsichordist himself, was born in Ypsilanti 36 years ago, the son of a jeweler and watchmaker. While at Michigan State Normal College (where he studied piano and organ), he heard his first clavichord, decided to make one. His handiwork was so successful that he went to England to study ancient instruments with Arnold Dolmetsch...