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Khachaturian: Violin Concerto (Louis Kaufman, violinist, with the Santa Monica Symphony Orchestra, Jacques Rachmilovich conducting; Concert Hall Society, 8 sides). This concerto, a favorite in Soviet Russia, won its composer his first Stalin Prize (1940). It is full of furious fiddling, signifying nothing. Performance: good...
Died. Lieut. Commander Frank ("Spig") Wead, U.S.N. (ret.), 52, pioneer Navy flyer (he set five speed and endurance records in the '20s), Broadway playwright (Ceiling Zero), movie scenarist (The Citadel); of pneumonia and complications; in Santa Monica, Calif. Wead decided to become a writer when his flying was ended by a crippling accident in 1926. But he wangled his way back to active duty in 1942, served aboard Pacific carriers with his neck in a steel brace...
...settle there since 1897, when, recovering from pneumonia, she spent a summer at a rest camp high up on San Jacinto. The camp owner had pointed to the scrub-covered desert below and said: "There's the place to spend the winter." Her father, a hotelkeeper in Santa Monica, laughed at Nellie's notion that Palm Springs would boom if it had a good boarding house; you couldn't even get to it on the railroad. Nellie reminded him that they had come West from Indiana by ox-wagon. "All the place needs is comfortable accommodations...
...Santa Monica, Calif...
Fish Story. Off Santa Monica, Calif., Fishermen Woodrow Wakatsuki and Katsumi Nishitawa had a wonderful catch-they kept hauling in the mackerel till the weight of the fish sank the boat...