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John Hessler is back this month with the baton in Section A and is doing nicely with his demodulation of lookout groups, radio conference, groups and 111-A subscribers. It isn't any wonder that one platoon found themselves in the Subway headed for the Fargo Building before they realized that he said, "lookconferencehead group...
...Lina Abar-banell, in hats reminiscent of poultry dinners, sang it for a Broadway run of 421 performances. In the orchestra pit, conducting its willowy waltzes with a hand dipped in authentic Viennese schmalz, was the oldest Merry Widower of them all, bald, paunchy Robert Stolz, who raised a baton on the first Vienna production...
Cruft Officers night at Pops Sunday was even bigger and better than last year. As Jesus Maria San Roma, the famous pianist, sat, fingers poised over the keys and Fieldler lifted his baton, and the whole audience sat hushed and intent on listening to Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto Number 2 in C Minor, "Pop!" went the cork of a champagne botite. A giggle gained momentum as it spread throughout Symphony Hall...
...great races in U.S. industrial history ended last week. Both Firestone Tire and U.S. Rubber began to turn out synthetic rubber-the first produced under the Government's original 1,000,000-ton program. Who won the race nobody knows. Firestone claimed that its Baton Rouge, La. plant (capacity, 30,000 tons using petroleum-butadiene) had produced the fat, brownish synthetic rubber "loaves" 24 hours before its rival. U.S. Rubber claimed the pennant for its plant at Institute, W. Va., largest single unit in the world (capacity, 90,000 tons using alcohol-butadiene). Experts hinted that the U.S. Rubber...
...Thomas' reputation with the baton increased, his finances became more confused than ever. In the early 'aos, in a complete economic dither, he gave up music altogether, concentrated for four years on balancing his books. By 1927 he had decided to take a fling at the U.S. He left London in one of his monumental (and dramatically effective) huffs. Said he: "England is finished, not only musically, but every other way. The only thing for anybody to do is to give up and go to America. After a few months' experience as a guest, I will stay...