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Pride. Hanslin was born a builder. His grandfather was a Swiss-German carpenter; his father headed a construction firm, as did two uncles. Indeed, the competing family firms built up miles of land in and around St. Louis during the 1920s and 1930s-with young Emil digging and hammering as a laborer for both of them. He launched a career as a theatrical director, but one night he heard his father and an uncle debating about who had built better houses. "At first I thought it was damn funny, but then I began getting the message. These guys arguing over...
MIDNIGHT OIL by V.S. Pritchett. The second installment of the celebrated British critic's charming autobiography tells how he became a writer and Parisian sophisticate during the 1920s...
Died. Jimmy Lytell, 67, Brooklyn-born bandleader who played jazz clarinet professionally by age 14, formed his own Dixieland jazz band during the 1920s and performed as many as 17 radio shows a week during the 1940s; in Kings Point...
...happens, this is not the first astral presence to bestir West Point. The superintendent's mansion is said to be haunted by the ghost of an Irish cook named Molly. In the 1920s, moreover, a priest was summoned to a house on Professors' Row to exorcise a spirit that had sent two young servant girls screaming naked into the night. To outflank the new extraterrestrial presence, Bakken has declared Room 4714 off limits until Easter. Meanwhile, one upperclassman insists that the ghost has gone. How does he know? "I am a warlock," the cadet solemnly explained...
Died. Rudolf Friml, 92, prolific composer king of schmalzy, popular light opera in the 1920s (The Vagabond King, Rose-Marie, The Three Musketeers); in Hollywood. Trained in Prague as a classical pianist and composer, Friml moved to the U.S. in 1906 and within six years had written his first Broadway operetta. A master of the improbably plotted, swashbuckling romance, he eventually composed 30 major works that included a string of hit songs (Indian Love Call, Donkey Serenade). When Broadway tastes changed, Friml tried adapting his work to film, but with little success...