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Last night, the composer and the musical director, Malcolm H. Holmes '28, conductor of the Harvard, Radcliffe, and Welleslay orchestras, supervised the gaudy dress rehearsal. Most startling feature of the preliminary trial was the precision work by the four Gentt, Frederick A. Jacobi '43, John D. Clarke '43, Cary S. Giles '43, and John F. Bouner...
...girls were talking in a bus and one remarked that she was making very good money in munitions and would like to see the war go on for a long time. A middle-aged woman across the aisle hauled off and socked her. The sockee demanded that the conductor stop the bus and get a policeman. When the policeman asked the other passengers what the disturbance was, nobody on the bus had noticed a thing...
Obstacles. In Parsons, Kans., a train pulled in an hour late because: in San Marcos, Tex., the conductor had dropped dead; outside of San Marcos, the train had struck an automobile and killed three people; further along a passenger had given birth to a baby...
...Conductor Stokowski knew from experiments in Paramount's and Walt Disney's studios what scientific design could do for acoustics. He went into huddles with NBC Chief Engineer O. B. Hanson. Early in February, NBC's big studio was closed off. Workmen built a slanting roof over the stage, faced the back wall with a marcelled pattern of half columns (technical name: convex diffusers), turned the side walls into a checkerboard of curved sections-all done to encourage resonance...
Parker. In North Tonawanda, N.Y., Conductor Maurice J. Mahoney was fined $10 for parking overtime. He left a freight train on a crossing for half an hour...