Word: judd
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last year, $117,000 from NBC) and record royalties (last year, $167,000 from RCA Victor). When expenses and income do not match, the hand that is held out to the "Friends of the Boston Symphony Orchestra" is always quickly and quietly filled. As white-haired Manager George E. Judd (34 years with the Boston) puts it: "We set our sights on what we want to do and then find a way to pay for it. If there are any deficits, we like to state them not in terms of dollars, but in terms of concerts not given...
...much for his lesser moments. When he is going well, he is unbeatable. He writes about Judd gray, the co-murderer, with Ruth Snyder, in a famously atrocious crime of the Twenties, with really extraordinary perception. He has a piece called "The Critical Process" which is the most illuminating discussion of criticism I have ever read. And he writes about Beethoven's Third Symphony with such excitement that if you can read music, you will be impelled to hunt up a score of the "Eroica" and see for yourself what he is taking about. Nobody else for Bernard Shaw...
...policy towards China. His bright yellow dispatch case bulging with documents, Secretary Acheson took his weary bones up to Capitol Hill for a closed session with the Republicans. When it was over, the Secretary, like Cardinal Wolsey, needed a little earth for charity. Minnesota's tireless Walter H. Judd, onetime China medical missionary, who believes that the U.S. could still save China from the Reds if it only tried, had taken a short aim on the Secretary of State. Said Judd: "U.S. policy could almost be expressed in four words: first, aid to China was 'unnecessary,' then...
Acheson coolly responded with the frankest description so far pinned on the U.S.'s wavering, feckless China policy: "Wait until the dust settles." That Mi-cawberism, which Dean Acheson had inherited when he took office, was not enough for Walter Judd. He blamed the U.S. for consistently undermining Chiang Kai-shek's Nationalist government. Acheson countered that the Chiang government was corrupt, that U.S. military supplies inevitably fell to the Communists without a real fight. Then Judd assailed the State Department's long effort to sell China a coalition government. Said Judd: "The Chinese knew then...
Randall Thompson '20, professor of Music, will judge the competition with Richard Burgin, Associate Conductor of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, and Francis, Judd Cooke, of the New England Conservatory of Music faculty. The entrants must be American-born citizens but no other requirements...