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...months before the event, advised New York's Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia in his 1933 Fusion Campaign, New York's Comptroller McGoldrick in 1934. He lectures to retailing classes at New York University, serves as board chairman to the University in Exile, which provides teaching posts for top-notch German refugees. He headed the group of Philharmonic patrons who canceled their subscriptions when Germany's Wilhelm Furtwängler was named Toscanini's successor (see p. 51 ), was first to restore his gift when Furtwängler withdrew. Short, stocky, with a great black bush of hair...
...Weld. In the Stadium, the gobs will fire broad-sides of TNT at the Harvard defence, and after the game, Harvard look to your laurals. Uniforms have a peculiar effect upon women. The Best Bets of the week according to Lloyd's are: Harvard, Princeton and the following top notch dine and dance spots...
...power. Soprano Lotte Lehmann will be another headliner along with Rethberg, Martinelli, Lawrence Tibbett, Friedrich Schorr, Charles Kullmann, Emanuel List, all from the Metropolitan roster. Faced with the most strenuous job of the San Francisco season is the Wagnerian conductor, this year Hungarian Fritz Reiner, who proved himself top-notch at opera in the Philadelphia series two win ters ago and again last spring at London's Covent Garden...
There will be continuous music from 10 to 4 furnished by Hudson-DeLange and Jack Marshard. The Hudson-DeLange orchestra has gained a wide reputation as a top notch "swing" band. Will Hudson is the composer of "The Organ-Grinder Swing", "Mr. Ghost Goes to Town", "Tormented", "You're Not the Kind", and many other such popular pieces--all of which the band features. Jack Marshard, currently playing at Seller's Ten Acres, is well known around Boston as a society dance favorite...
Largely because of the impetus of the War, the U. S. merchant fleet remains the second largest in the world. It is also the oldest and slowest collection of tubs owned by any important maritime nation. To replace it with a top-notch fleet, Congress last spring passed the Merchant Marine Act of 1936, offering the most liberal seagoing subsidies in U. S. history, including payments to shipbuilders of as much as 50% of construction costs and payments to ship-operators sufficient to put them on an equal basis with foreign competitors (TIME, July 13). To administer these important projects...