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...Heimo Haitto (pronounced hay-moe high-toe) sat down and wrote his good friend Sibelius all about it. Last week the boy had more to tell the old composer. Again bare-kneed, and sailorcollared, Heimo Haitto tucked a Guarnerius fiddle under his beardless chin, made his bigtime U. S. debut with Ormandy and the orchestra in the plushy Academy of Music. Critics liked his easy, self-assured playing, could well believe that Sibelius had said of him: "This youngster will carry on the tradition of Finnish music...
...Hanover Indians will be starting the hard way when they tangle with Cornell. the Big Red, which shared the crown with Harvard in 1939 has made an auspicious debut. It bas won both games it has played, beating Pennsylvania by 21 to 5 and Harvard...
...Yale-Pennsylvania game will mark the debut in league competition of Yale's sensational sophomore left hander, Ted Harrison, who, although he has pitched only seven innings thus far this year, has demonstrated that he has lost none of the skill that made him an outstanding hurler in prep school and as a freshman. Pennsylvania, which met Columbia yesterday (Friday) lost its first two league games...
...Tuskegee Big Jim placed a wreath on the Booker T. Washington monument (Washington lifting a -veil from the eyes of a startled slave). Then he greeted frail old George Washington Carver, ate fried chicken, reviewed a parade. After Negro Tenor Roland Hayes had made his radio debut in a broadcast from Boston, Mr. Farley compared Booker T. to George Washington, to Robert E. Lee, shook many a black hand, visited the founder's grave, went on to Auburn. Mr. Farley ate chicken once again (he hates it), entrained for Atlanta, with Georgia and North Carolina...
...years ago were considered washed up-Jim and Marion Jordan. By radio alias they are Fibber McGee and Molly of 79 Wistful Vista. This week they celebrate Fibber & Co.'s fifth season on the air for Johnson's Glo-Coat floor wax.* Last week they made their debut in the dramatic bigtime, playing Mama Loves Papa (a Charles Ruggles-Mary Boland movie story) on CBS's Lux Radio Theatre. They let the characterization pass, wrung the gags unmercifully, but no one minded. A year ago Fibber & Co. were metaphorically down among the acrobats in popularity. This season...