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...even been persuaded to pose for photographers (who had promised not to use flashbulbs). He also arrived ready to carry out a promise made in Italy. Answering the request of his old friend (and NBC's general music director) Samuel Chotzinoff, he had cabled: "Accept Ridgefield. Make nice program." Last week, for the second time in two years, the maestro made a "nice program" for his favorite little U.S. town, and had the time of his life doing...
Then, in the tiny (550 seats) auditorium of the Ridgefield, Conn, high school, he led his orchestra, proud, gay and beaming, through a typical "pop" concert program that his concert and radio audiences seldom hear him play. While kids and grown-ups sat enthralled, he gave them Saint-Saëns' bone-rattling Danse Macabre; he made Mendelssohn's "Italian" Symphony glow with Italian sunlight, Debussy's Afternoon of a Faun shimmer sensually. By the time he had sailed through one of his own light favorites, Waldteufel's Skaters' Waltz, the audience could...
Said he when it was ended: "I'm not tired at all. Let's do it all over again." Ridgefield (pop. 1,500) would be happy if he did. His first benefit concert there two years ago had earned a neat $9,000 for the Ridgefield Library and Historical Association. Last week, with seats selling as high as $50, he raised $15,500 for the library and Ridgefield Boys' Club. . . . . Two other far-famed conductors also made notable first appearances of the season last week...
...Beta Gauge, which measures the thickness of a material by spraying it with beta particles (electrons) from a radioactive isotope and gauging their penetration, was first installed last May in Continental Paper Co.'s plant at Ridgefield Park, N.J. It worked so uncannily well that rubber, paper mills and other industries all began clamoring for it. To meet the demand, Tracerlab has tripled its space by moving into a nearby six-story building paid for out of $1,196,000 of new capital raised last spring with a stock issue. It expects to step up gauge production from...
Thomas J. Johnston '49, of Lowell House and White Plains, N.Y., was appointed chairman of the 1949 Album Board last night. Henry S. Bennett '49, of Adams House and New York City, and J. Russell Hunter '49, of Lowell House and Ridgefield, Conn; were chosen business manager and circulation manager, respectively...