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...Much Food. Dr. Arthur Fishberg of New York believes that both diseases result from city living. Southern Negroes seldom suffer from circulatory troubles. Chinese peasants are almost unaffected, while Jews, most of whose ancestors have lived in cities for 2,000 years, are frequent victims...
...simple statistics are arresting. Among the Fishbergs and Glantzes there are in the U.S. (and Russia has more): ten violinists, eight trumpeters, three pianists, two flutists, two clarinetists, two saxophonists, two drummers and one double bassist. Among the Borodkins and Gusikoffs there are five cellists, two violinists, four trumpeters, two drummers, one violist, one pianist, one clarinetist and one trombonist. The total amounts to some 47 orchestra players, includes twelve violinists, twelve trumpet players. Among the most prominent are Mischa Mischakoff (real name Fishberg), concertmaster of the NBC Symphony; Harry Glantz, first trumpet of the NBC Symphony; Sidney Baker...
Isaac, the Patriarch. The Gusikoffs are an old Moscow family tracing themselves with pride to Michael Gusikoff (1806-37), great pioneer virtuoso on the xylophone. The Borodkins are from Minsk and have known, and intermarried with, the Gusikoffs only since both arrived in the U.S. The Fishbergs and Glantzes, however, knew one another intimately in the Ukranian town of Proskurov where Pincas Glantz and Isaac Fishberg played in the local band under the Czars. The patriarch Isaac Fishberg, 94, is still as spry as a Bessarabian goat. He lives with his grey-haired wife Fannie in a little three-room...
Pink-cheeked Isaac Fishberg speaks only Yiddish and is a man of great spirit. In spite of his age, he gets up at 4 o'clock every morning to visit the synagogue, does the family marketing himself on the way home. He is infuriated if anyone suggests that his health is delicate. He has high blood pressure, but claims to enjoy it. He views most of his in-laws with tolerance, but would not live with any of his descendants for a prophet's ransom...
...weeks ago 94-year-old Isaac Fishberg came home after a night out and had to be put to bed because of a serious nosebleed. He refused to tell where he had been. The truth finally leaked out. Bored with the routine of domestic life, Isaac had sneaked away with his flute to a Jewish wedding where he had played for four hours at a stretch...