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...great-great-granduncle was James Iredell. North Carolina's first U. S. Supreme Court justice. Known still as "the best scholar at Chapel Hill since the Civil War," he led his class (1907) through the University of North Carolina, a year later became a practicing lawyer. His great bass voice reverberated triumphantly through many a Carolina court room. Jury after jury felt the force of his geniality no less than his legal logic. A Republican, he ran vainly but well for attorney general in 1916, for governor in 1920. In 1923 he was named an assistant...
Because Basso Michael Bohnen wanted to return early to Germany to make a sound film, Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera Company imported on short notice another Wagnerian bass, introduced him last week in Götterdämmerung, concluding opera of the Ring cycle (TIME, Feb. 17). Despite the fact that the new singer's name is Siegfried, like the Götterdämmerung hero's, he is no German but a Swiss, with the surname Tappolet. Only 26, he has already attracted enviable attention in Geneva, Stuttgart. Mannheim. Last week's performance brought him still...
...Francis Boott Prize: For the composition in concerted vocal music. The competition for this prize is open to undergraduates and to members of any graduate school of the University. The composition shall be written in four voices (soprano, alto, tenor, and bass), for chorus, with or without solo voices, and with organ or piano accompaniment; and the time required for its performance must not exceed six minutes. The words shall be either English or Latin, religious or secular, original or selected. The prize composition will be performed in the College Chapel, with chorus and organ. Committee: Mr. Arthur Foote, Chairman...
...Rinehart--John Brice Gordon Rinehart--was living on the top floor of Gray's Hall. He wasn't eccentric and friendless but, to all appearances, a rather normal underclassman. One night a fellow student called to him from the Yard, "O, R-i-i-ne-hart!" in a hoarse bass voice, and kept up the cry for many minutes. Other boys were calling other friends from the Yard, as he was, but there was something in the pitch and the volume of the voice which attracted attention. Someone in derision mocked it from a window and in a few minutes...
...Santa Monica, Calif., swimming about in the surf, Albert Fuchs managed to catch with his hands and lug ashore a ten-pound, live silver-bass...