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Walter Hendl first started waving his hands in front of an orchestra in 1939, when he won a Curtis Institute conducting fellowship with Fritz Reiner. In 1944 he was discharged from two years of Army service, during which he had led a dance band, the Jive Bombers. In the next year he wrote the music for a successful Broadway show, Dark of the Moon, and went to work as assistant conductor of the New York Philharmonic-Symphony. Impressed by his work in New York, the trustees of the Dallas orchestra offered him their conductorship...
...Hoagy can almost support his family (a wife and two young sons) on the income from Stardust, written in 1929. Says he: "It's practically an annuity." He still felt "like a rank amateur" after his first long-haired composition, but he confessed he was already at work on a second. This one, he said, would be about the California redwoods and would be "sort of austere, with an ecclesiastic, cathedral-like quality . . . 'Lofty' I think would be a good word...
...Mahoney, who retired last week as medical director of the Venereal Disease Research Laboratory, U.S. Marine Hospital, Staten Island, N.Y., Dr. Richard C. Arnold, his successor, and Serologist Ad Harris. For the first few months after treatment, the seamen had been kept ashore, and on call. But for almost two years of wartime service they were all over the bounding main and in many a disease-ridden liberty port...
Because the risks are generally considered too great, most surgeons shy away from operating on old people. So when Manhattan-born, European-trained (University of Budapest) Dr. John Toma was appointed attending surgeon for the 500 residents of two California homes for old folks, he knew that his job would not be an easy...
Last week, summing up the work of two years, Dr. Toma (rhymes with coma) had remarkable success to report in surgery upon patients from Methodist-sponsored Pacific Home and Claremont Manor, in Los Angeles County. In more than 50 operations on men & women "up to 100 years" he had lost only one patient...