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...Requa, Republican National Committeeman from California and close friend of Herbert Hoover, had been enlisted by Cord's Century Air Lines in 1931 in a campaign to obtain airmail contracts. Placed in evidence was a letter in which Cord had written to his able First Lieutenant Lucius Bass Manning: "Requa seems to think ... it is a cinch that Postmaster General Brown is going to bow to him and definitely says he has the power and will call Brown on the carpet...
...hand, Errett Cord, commenting on his unsuccessful efforts to get more advantageous mail contracts, was vowing to this effect: "All this is going to be changed. We are attending to that." And it was just after election that Cord's able, hard-boiled righthand man. Lucius Bass Manning, declared vaguely but grandly: "We're claiming the 48 states and everything else in sight. We mean business and you can put that down for just what it means. We know how to make money, and we're going to make it out of aviation." Cord's advance...
...racks, disappeared one by one until only Koussevitzky was left at the spinet and on a screen flashed the lines: "You have heard Haydn's Farewell Symphony. May your orchestra never play its own." Surprise came when Koussevitzky announced that he had never really heard his own double-bass concerto. He went and sat in the audience while Ludwig Juht, one of the orchestra's bull-fiddlers, played it. For the Boston Symphony's emergency fund the concert earned...
...throne dressed like his own "Little King." But as the audience jostled out into the night the talk was not so much of the comedy as of the evening's one serious interlude. When Narrator Knight reached the year 1921 the stage was empty save for the big bass drum and the clown's cap which Enrico Caruso used in Pagliacci. While the audience was reverently still a Caruso phonograph record was played...
...bows move as one, whether Stokowski fussed about such things or not. The Mozart-Kleine Nacht Musik started off too delicately to suit him. "Excuse me," he shouted. "It is too fairy. Mozart was very man." He imitated perfectly the sounds he wanted from the English horn, the double bass, the flute. The men's respect mounted until some were calling him the next Toscanini. But Iturbi wanted no adulation. "Please," he repeated frequently. "The music! I am not genius...