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There are those who say that dark, square-faced Walter Hammond is the greatest all-round cricket player old England ever developed. If Jack Hobbs was the Babe Ruth of cricket, Walter Hammond certainly is the Lou Gehrig. For the past ten years he has scored more than 1,000 runs a season, holds the batting record for Test Matches with 336 runs (not out).* Since 1920 he has been an outstanding professional on the Gloucestershire (county) team. As such he earned about $1,500 a year, entered cricket clubs through the professionals' door, saw his name...
Last week Cricketer Hammond decided he could not make a living at cricket, and took a job with an English rubber firm. When the season starts Walter Hammond will walk through the gentlemen's door, and see his name in the score books as "W. R. Hammond." For, reversing the procedure of U. S. athletes, Walter Hammond had turned amateur...
...representatives in the various Houses are as follows: Adams, Bartow Kelly; Dunster, Robert A. Sears '39; Eliot, Nathaniel H. Batchelder '39; Kirkland, Charles P. Hammond '39; Leverett, William H. Daughaday '40; Lowell, Elliott B. Knowlton '38; Winthrop, Lyman B. Burbank '38 and Theodore P. Robio...
...Star Wagon, by Maxwell Anderson (who improvises on his own Hammond, and whose sons discovered that its electrical impulses can produce a sound like a blow-out), was not affected, since the Empire Theatre already has a small orchestra. But Many Mansions, which opened last fortnight, felt the full weight of the union's hand. Besides paying a Hammondist $200 a week, its management had to hire three musicians at union scale ($100 a week for the leader. $75 for others). Since no one wanted them to play, the three last week watched the show every night, prepared...
This week the Hammond comes into its musical majority when Italian Organist Fernando Germani, a onetime child prodigy, gives a Hammond recital in Boston's Symphony Hall. First organist to take a Hammond on tour, he will play Bach and Handel organ music, as well as arrangements of piano and orchestral compositions, in 52 U. S. cities. An organ debutant with the Chicago Symphony nine years ago, when he was 20, Germani is now official organist of Rome's Augusteo Orchestra. As Benito Mussolini's favorite musician, he played at the wedding of Daughter Edda and Count...