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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...caviar to musical gourmets. Caviar from the very finest of sturgeons is the chamber music produced by the famed Budapest String Quartet, world's top-ranking string ensemble. To gobble up this treat last fortnight Manhattan's hungriest musical highbrows gathered in Town Hall to hear the first concert of the New Friends of Music's annual chamber-music series...
...French horn (musicians call it simply the "horn") is far & away the hardest of all brass instruments to play. Horn-blowers must have sensitive lips as well as stout lungs. Ellen Stone first tried her lips and lungs on a French horn six years ago, in the Teaneck, N. J. high-school band, when she was 16. Says she: "After three days I wouldn't have given it up for worlds. I felt comfortable on it." By now she sounds comfortable on it, but it took some doing. She practiced from morning to night-in the garage whither...
Born. To Randolph Apperson ("Randy") Hearst, 23, youngest (with twin brother David Whitmire) of William Randolph Hearst's five sons, assistant publisher of his father's Atlanta Georgian, and Catherine Wood Campbell Hearst, 21: their first child, a daughter, Hearst's fifth grandchild. Weight: 5½ lbs. Name: Catherine Millicent...
Obstacles. First job of any new network is leasing point-to-point A. T. & T. circuits, which cost basically $8 a mile for a month of 16-hour radio days. A. T. & T. seldom has an oversupply of coast-to-coast circuits. Network men on the outside withheld judgment on TBS's prospects until they could find out: 1) whether TBS could get wire lines; 2) whether the business it had lined up would warrant an annual outlay of $800,000 to $1,000,000 for lines; 3) whether it could keep enough important stations in line to survive...
...generations ago, Newsman Eugene Field was about as well known as a bottleman and writer of scatological ballads (such as The French Crisis) as he was as a children's poet. Poet Field was nobody to conduct a Sunday school class, and would have been the first to admit it. But last week, at the Episcopal Church of the Holy Comforter in the North Shore Chicago suburb of Kenilworth, school children gathered about the tomb of Eugene Field on the day before the 44th anniversary of his death. A Boy Scout and a Girl Scout laid wreaths...