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Hiestand broke 96 birds, enough to win in some years but only good enough last week to put him in a tie for third place, which he won after a shoot-off. Winner was a 51 -year-old Seabord Air Line Railway conductor from Tallahassee, Fla., named Jordan B. Royall. No novice, Royall has been shooting for nine years, has been a Florida champion for four of the last five. Nonetheless, partly because he had never entered the Grand American before, few shooters at Vandalia knew who he was until, firing from 20 yd., he broke 98 targets...
...natives from his palace at Kuching (TIME, Feb. 5, 1934). Romantic Sarawak is "independent under the protection of the British Crown." Last month in Sarawak a cable from the Raja's 22-year-old Daughter Eliza asked if she could marry London's loudest-blowing hot jazz conductor, Harry...
Harpsichords. In Manhattan's Lewisohn Stadium one night last week swart Pianist-Conductor Jose Iturbi turned on a little-known facet of his exuberant talent. A harpsichordist for 26 years who has studied with the most publicized exponent of that ancient instrument, Mme Wanda Landowska, he tinkled bravely through a Haydn concerto, conducting the orchestra on the side as all performers did in the harpsichord's heyday, the first half of the 18th Century...
Mayor LaGuardia's début as conductor coincided with the 1,000th performance of the Goldman Band, founded in 1918 as New York's first series of summer concerts. Bandmaster Goldman has never missed a concert and, with audiences of from 15,000 to 50,000, believes he has played to more people than anyone else in the world. Backed at first by a number of rich New Yorkers, the Goldman concerts later became the private benefaction of the Guggenheim family (copper), are now called the Daniel Guggenheim Memorial Concerts for the charitarian who died five years...
...Although Cellist-Conductor Hans Kindler has had trouble enough making a go of winter concerts with his four-year-old National Symphony in Washington, he determined to put on a summer season. He persuaded the National Park Service to shoulder one-third of the cost ($35,000). He hurdled union obstacles. From the Navy Department he begged and borrowed a coal barge which was towed up the Potomac, anchored by Arlington Memorial Bridge. On this was built a big grey acoustic shell. One night last week Conductor Kindler and his 80 musicians marched up gangplanks to the barge, played Wagner...