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Minneapolitans grew proud and fond of their Maestro Mitropoulos, bought out every last seat of their huge Northrop Auditorium (capacity 4,800). The men in the orchestra followed their leader with a devotion bordering on worship. Visitors discovered that some of the most brilliant and spectacular U. S. conducting since the peak days of Stokowski and Toscanini was being done in snow-crusted Minneapolis. This year, with Mitropoulos' fame spreading to bigger cities, Minneapolis tied him securely with a three-year contract...
...much-distilled terms, the fond picture projected by the report is of a vastly more vigorous intra-mural sports program. Its scope is grander, the facilities are more equal to the demands, the coaching is better, the spirit of competition is keener, the participation is larger. The elusive fire-fly of "athletics for all" will for once be captured. There will be a decisive de-emphasis of sports if by emphasis is meant playing to win--for the old grads and the Sunday columnists. There will be new emphasis in the sense of athletics for sport and for physical gain...
...Reverend James' worshipping young assistant, the cast is excellent. John Cromwell is a sensitive and appealing Marchbanks; in clumsier hands Marchbanks can be clowned like a Tarkingtonian adolescent. Onslow Stevens as well as Cromwell has steered clear of extremes. His Morell id not too pompous and too fond of his own voice to be loved by Candida. And Dorothy Sands is the old-maid incarnate in the role of Miss Proserpine Garnett, Morell's typist who is as much in love with him as all his feminine flock...
...tell Mr. Garner for us that we're very fond of him, but he just...
...small sailboat on Connecticut's Candlewood Lake, and summer cruises in the Baltic on Finnish windjammers. He reads few books, would "rather open a vein than write," though T. E. Lawrence frequently made corrections in the Odyssey at his suggestion. (Rogers suggested the Odyssey translation to Lawrence.) Fond of bright clothing, Italian cooking, puns and typographical horseplay, Bruce Rogers particularly likes lying abed mornings. On his tombstone, chuckles "B. R.," he would like to have chiseled these instructions for the Angel Gabriel: "Call me last...