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Concerning names-in-a-million, TIME of Aug. 30 is clearly right. Mr. Planalp, Mr. Staats, Mary Byram, Otto Baab, Otto Egge and others have proven that "there is more than one person whose surname is a perfect, proper palindrome." Therefore some else must claim the name-in-a-million...
...York Symphony, Walter Damrosch, conductor, Otto Klemperer and Fritz Busch, guest conductors, will give 20 Sunday afternoon concerts, beginning on Oct. 31, 12 Thursday afternoon and 12 Friday evening concerts, 6 Saturday afternoon concerts for young people and 5 Saturday morning concerts for children. Under Dr. Damrosch six new works by six composers of six different countries will be played: De Falla's marionette opera, El Retablo de Maese Pedro, Sibelius' Tapiola, Casella's Scarlatina, Honegger's Phaedre, Ernst Hallfter's Spanish Suite, a symphony by Austin George Antheil, Milhaud's Ballad for Piano...
...Mayville, N. D., a small town of about a thousand inhabitants (formerly my home), there lives a man by the name of Otto Egge. Both names are reversible. That ought to be a "name-in-a-good-many- million!" . . . By the way, as one who each week reads your magazine from cover to cover, let me also add my hymn of praise to the swelling chorus...
...Planalp (TIME, Aug. 16) isn't the only one. There used to be a piano dealer in Springfield, Mass., named Otto Baab, whose mail came to him often simply addressed as follows...
...cities in the U. S., but I've never yet met anyone-with the exception of members of my own family, who can spell the surname backwards and forwards with the same result." Idlers suggested appropriate names for Mr. Planalp's children: Ada, Bob, Lil, Anna, Hannah, Otto. They could call Mr. Planalp "Pop," one jester added. . . . Manhattanites reflected that Mr. Planalp should some day call on James Leffel of 39 Courtland Street, their city; Philadelphians took satisfaction from the 16 double-actioned Reber families listed in their telephone book; San Francisco was complacent with six taxpayers named...