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...mourned the death of Composer Ravel, most noted French musician of his generation. It was not as the concocter of that booming bit of cafe music that Ravel drew this world-wide homage, but as the composer of two operas, numerous songs and chamber music works, and of a half-dozen suites and tone poems (Daphnis et Chloe, La Valse, Rhapsodic Espagnole, Alborada del Gracioso, Ma Mere I 'Oye, Le Tombeau de Couperin, et al.) which have long ornamented the symphonic programs of three continents. A miraculous orchestrator and an adept at poetic description in sound, fastidious, precise-minded...
...morning of July 7, 1889, John L. Sullivan rose from a creaking bed in a Rampart Street boarding house in New Orleans and ate for breakfast a seven-pound sea bass, five soft-boiled eggs, a half-loaf of graham bread, a half-dozen tomatoes, and drank a cup of tea. For lunch he had a small steak, two slices of stale bread, and a bottle of Bass' ale. For dinner he ate three chickens with rice, Creole style, and another half-loaf of graham bread dunked in chicken broth...
...takes to complete a typical cartoon short, he would find it a highly efficient, if occasionally cockeyed, procedure. First step in the making of any Disney picture is the story conference, at which the Disney story staff gathers to sort out ideas that may have grown out of their half-dozen minds, or may have been plucked out of the studio gag library, a sort of omnibus of humor and situations from Aesop to Captain Billy's Whiz Bang. Before any script is written, it is discussed and pantomimed by the eager gagsters, who solemnly simulate Donald Duck squawking...
...England, Captain John A. Murdocke owns Kilgore & French, one of the world's half-dozen great tailoring houses, and is admitted to the royal enclosure at Ascot. In the U. S., he is a style reporter for Men's Wear magazine, Interwoven Socks and Palm Beach Suits. Arriving in Manhattan last week, the impeccable Captain Murdocke listed the U. S. men he considers best dressed (among others): Cinemactors John Loder, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Adolphe Menjou, Tyrone Power, Clark Gable; Socialites Angier Biddle Duke, Anthony J. Drexel Biddle Jr., Marshall Field III, Joseph E. Widener, Peter Widener, William Goadby...
...rgyi found that the adrenal glands secrete a substance, ascorbic acid, which he subsequently discovered to be the same thing as Vitamin C. To further these studies, Dr, Szent-Györgyi needed large quantities of ascorbic acid, and his pursuit of it took him to a half-dozen European universities and the Mayo Clinic at Rochester, Minn, where Dr. Edward Calvin Kendall, isolator of thyroid hormone and analyzer of adrenal cortex hormone, provided him with a big stock of adrenals fresh from South St. Paul stockyards. He still was not able to get enough to permit all the experiments...