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Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 (Irma Gonzalez, soprano; Elena Nikolaidi, contralto; Raoul Jobin, tenor; Mack Harrell, baritone; Westminster Choir and New York Philharmonic-Symphony Orchestra, Bruno Walter conducting; Columbia, 16 sides). The first three movements are performed with more passion than pace; both the singing and the recording in the choral movement come off with some screeching and muffled sounds...
When a 17-year-old youth named Lawrence Mack knocked on his door one night last week and tried to collect for some cleaning work, Craig ran true to form. He yanked out a pistol. As the youth began to sprint down the street, Craig took a shot...
Other managers might have their troubles, but bat-straight, 86-year-old Cornelius (Connie Mack) McGillicudy of the Philadelphia Athletics just kept rolling along. There was no particular Mack anniversary last week (next season will be his 50th as manager of the A's), but the mayor and citizenry of New York City decided to give "a day" to contemplate the phenomenon. There was plenty to contemplate...
Died. George Moran, 67, straight man of the richly nostalgic radio and vaudeville black-face comedy team of Moran & Mack (The Two Black Crows); of a stroke; in Oakland, Calif. The act, belly laugh of the Ziegfeld Follies in the '20s, folded in 1934 when Charles E. Mack was killed in an automobile accident...
...Connie Mack's hustling Philadelphia A's kept pecking away at the win bag, but never seemed quite able to beat the Yankees when it counted most. In Cleveland, the World Champion Indians were still trying to figure out how they happened to be trailing by six games (after a bootstrap pull-up from seventh to second place). But nothing matched the Boston Red Sox's consternation; the Yankees were calling them "cousin" after walloping them in five games...